If they do not use hijab, they can be arrested, assaulted and violated. The state is the one who establishes the “civic responsibility” of denunciation.
The name may not tell you anything. But you must remember the death of a young Iranian in 2022, beaten by the police for manifested themselves for the rights of women.
The episode gave rise to a long unpublished in the country for the freedom of women.
The independent international mission of facts about the Islamic Republic of Iran (United Nations) confirmed that their death was not caused, as the authorities were believing, by sudden “heart failure”, but for the aggressions that he was a victim.
The same organization now points to the existence of a program of “Sponsored Watchlutism State “ To control female clothing, which according to the rules of Islam, must always go through the use of a hijab in public.
Drones and Surveillance Chambers are some of the most commonly used mechanisms to peek women and their clothing code, according to the findings, available in a
When women use vehicles such as ambulances or taxis and do not comply with strict clothing rules, they can also be reported through mobile applications, such as “Nazer”, where any ordinary citizen can make a complaint.
“Users can add the site, date, time, and number of the vehicle’s enrollment number in which the compulsory hijab infringement occurred, which then ‘marks’ the online vehicle, warning the police,” he writes in the report.
The vehicle owners themselves then receive a warning, which says the rules are not being fulfilled. If you ignore you, your vehicle can be seized.
The penalties undergo arrest or aggression and there are women to be violated for not using the veil, according to the investigators.
According to, at the University of Amirkabir, in Tehran, the authorities installed a facial recognition software at the input gate To also detect women who do not use hijab.
According to the reportit is the Iranian state who imposes this “civic responsibility” to denounce. The investigation also found evidence of extrajudicial executions of three children and three protesters, later discarded by the state as suicides, as well as situations of violation of women.
As the UN text writes, “two and a half years after the protests began in September 2022, women and girls in Iran continue to face a systematic discrimination, In law and in practice, which permeates all aspects of their lives, in particular as regards the application of mandatory hijab ”.
