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Iranian woman defies morality police, strips in public

miriw — Sun, 03 Nov 2024 02:30:13 +0000

A female student has been arrested at Tehran Islamic Azad University after staging a protest against dress code regulations by partially removing her clothing, according to reports from Euronews and Amnesty Iran.

The incident, which was captured on video by other students and widely shared on social media platform X, occurred after security officers allegedly harassed the woman for improper hijab wear. The student, whose identity has not been released, was filmed from a classroom overlooking the campus. The video has garnered significant attention online, with social media users praising the woman's actions as courageous.

Video: Arab social media

Syed Amir Mahjoub, the university's public relations director, said security personnel handed the student over to police authorities. He denied any physical confrontation took place and stated that preliminary investigations suggest the woman was experiencing psychological distress.

In Iran, a student harassed by her university's morality police over her "improper" hijab didn't back down. She turned her body into a protest, stripping to her underwear and marching through campus—defying a regime that constantly controls women's bodies. Her act is a powerful… pic.twitter.com/76ekxSK7bI

— Masih Alinejad (@AlinejadMasih) November 2, 2024

Amnesty Iran has called for the student's immediate and unconditional release. In a post on X, the organization demanded she be protected from "torture and other ill-treatment" and granted access to legal representation and family members. The group also urged an investigation into allegations of physical abuse and sexual violence during her arrest.

Iran's authorities must immediately & unconditionally release the university student who was violently arrested on 2 Nov after she removed her clothes in protest against abusive enforcement of compulsory veiling by security officials at Tehran's Islamic Azad University. 1/2 pic.twitter.com/lI1JXYsgtm

— Amnesty Iran (@AmnestyIran) November 2, 2024

Emily Schrader, an online activist for the Iranian people, posted on Instagram: "Initial reports indicate that following the protest incident, she was abducted by 4 security forces from the campus and was severely beaten before being dragged into a car and taken to an unknown place. According to an eyewitness, the girl was beat so badly her head hit the door of the car and she was bleeding profusely to the point that traces of blood were seen on the tires of the car."

People hold signs and chant slogans during a protest over the death of Iranian Mahsa Amini outside the Iranian Consulate on October 17, 2022, in Istanbul, Turkey (Photo: Chris McGrath/Getty Images) Getty Images

Some news outlets have reported that intelligence agents arrested the woman and transferred her to an undisclosed location. A local university-affiliated newspaper stated she had been taken to a psychiatric facility.

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Iranian mother left paraplegic after shot by police over hijab

miriw — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 20:30:22 +0000

A 31-year-old Iranian woman has been left paraplegic after being shot by police over a violation of the country's strict hijab rules, according to a source with knowledge of the case who spoke to the BBC. Arezoo Badri, a mother of two, was driving home with her sister in the northern city of Noor on July 22 when police attempted to pull her over to confiscate her car.

The incident occurred amid a renewed crackdown by Iranian authorities on women defying the nation's compulsory dress code. Police had recently announced measures, including CCTV, to identify female drivers failing to cover their heads and confiscating vehicles carrying female passengers with uncovered hair.

According to the BBC source, the police officer first shot at the car's tire before targeting Badri directly from the driver's side. "The bullet entered her lung and severely damaged her spinal cord," the source said. "She is paralyzed from the waist down, and doctors have said it will take months to determine whether she will be permanently paraplegic or not."

JUST NOW: BBC reporting that Arezoo Badri, a mother of two, has been left paraplegic after Iranian police in Noor shot her for violating compulsory hijab. pic.twitter.com/wdC2JXPLb4

— Kareem Rifai (@KareemRifai) August 12, 2024

Colonel Ahmed Amini, Noor's police chief, told Iran's state-run news agency that the use of firearms was permitted under Iranian law. He stated that the driver did not comply with the order to stop, prompting the officers to shoot. The police chief did not name Badri in his statement.

It remains unclear whether Badri was wearing a headscarf at the time of the incident. However, her car reportedly had a confiscation notice against it, suggesting multiple alleged violations of the hijab law. Both the police and the BBC source confirmed that the car's windows were tinted.

Following the shooting, Badri was initially taken to a hospital in Noor before being transferred to a hospital in Sari, the provincial capital, for lung surgery. A week later, she was moved to Tehran, where the bullet was only removed after 10 days, according to the source.

Badri is currently in the intensive care unit of the police-owned Vali-e-Asr Hospital in Tehran under tight security. The source said that her family is allowed only brief visits, during which their mobile phones are confiscated. Authorities have prohibited visitors from taking photos or videos of Badri, although some images have emerged.

The heightened security measures surrounding Badri's hospitalization are reminiscent of those implemented in the case of Armita Geravand, a 17-year-old who died in October after spending 28 days in a coma following an alleged altercation with the morality police at an underground station. Human rights activists claimed she was assaulted for not wearing a hijab, an allegation denied by the Iranian government.

The incident involving Badri comes amid ongoing tensions in Iran over the enforcement of hijab laws. Women have been legally required to wear a hijab in public since the Islamic Revolution of 1979, with penalties for infringement including fines and imprisonment. The death of Mahsa Amini in 2022 while in custody of the morality police for allegedly wearing her hijab "improperly" sparked widespread protests and a movement known as "Women, Life, Freedom."

Despite the increased risk of punishment, Iranian women have told the BBC they remain willing to defy the hijab rule. Recently, CCTV footage showing the violent assault of a 14-year-old girl by hijab enforcement officers in Tehran ignited widespread outrage. The girl's mother told Iran's Ensaf News that she found her daughter at a morality police station with a "bruised face, swollen lips, a bruised neck, and torn clothes."

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The new victims of Iran's morality police: Men in shorts

omrif — Sun, 11 Aug 2024 10:00:03 +0000

Iran's morality police are infamous for their violent methods, and their zealous enforcement of the Islamic Republic's strict moral laws on women has become a well-known symbol of the Ayatollahs' regime. However, in a move that surprised even the country's citizens, the morality police have recently begun enforcing these laws against men as well. At the center of this new wave of religious persecution: shorts.

The "Hama-Mahan" newspaper, published in Tehran and associated with the reformist faction in Iranian politics, reported a wave of arrests of young men for wearing shorts. The article highlights the story of Hossein, a resident of central Tehran, who was violently arrested by morality police officers while riding his bicycle in the city.

"I asked them under what law they were arresting me, but they told me to shut up and keep my head down if I knew what was good for me," the young Iranian told the newspaper's reporter, Elnaz Mohammadi. When Hossein arrived at the police station, he saw a long line of young men in shorts and realized that he had fallen victim to a morality police operation.

Video: A morality police officer beats a woman in Tehran.

Hossein told the newspaper that the men who were arrested were registered and forced to sign a confession to committing a crime before being released to their homes, in contrast to the women he saw at the station who were detained and had to wait for a judge and a criminal conviction. Hossein was informed that it is forbidden to wear shorts that are ten centimeters above the knee and that it is considered antisocial and immoral behavior.

After the newspaper reached out to the police, the Iranian police issued a response stating: "The police command, while calling on everyone to adhere to religious and moral norms, warns that any abnormal action against the values of society, such as those carried out by abnormal individuals, will be dealt with with absolute seriousness and severity."

Social activists, speaking to the newspaper anonymously, claimed that this is an attempt by the Iranian regime to show that it is not only enforcing Sharia law on women, but on men as well. However, the preferential treatment given to men in police stations and within the judicial system indicates that this is merely a deception - the morality police found themselves under heavy criticism last month, after footage of female officers beating a young woman who refused to wear a hijab has surfaced.

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Iranian mullah scolds woman about head covering, gets more than he bargained for

Noga Martin — Fri, 31 Dec 2021 10:00:30 +0000

A woman in Iran has been arrested after a video of her knocking the turban of a mullah in the country was published by opponents of the ayatollah regime online. The woman appears to have confronted the man after he hit her with his cane and demanded she fix her head covering.

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In video of the incident, which transpited in the Iranian city of Qom, one of the holiest cities in Shiiite Islam, the woman can be seen tussling with the man, knocking off his turban and stomping on it in anger. She is then seen chasing off another religious man who tries to intervene.

The woman was arrested by Iran's morality police, who enforce legislation requiring head coverings for women in public places, after the video was shared online.

Iranian-American political and women's rights activist Masih Alinejad wrote on her My Stealthy Freedom Facebook page, where Iranian women share images of themselves without hair coverings in an effort to effect change: "An Iranian woman used her right of self-defense against a mullah who hit her with his stick and told her to fix her headscarf. Conclusion; mullah and turban put in their place.

"At the end of the video you see one of them mullahs running away. ##MyCameraIsMyWeapon."

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