Iran broadcasts recent marketing campaign reintroducing ethical police to drive ladies to put on hijab
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On sixteenth July, the Iranian authorities reintroduced obligatory hijab for girls with ethical police again on the streets. Notably, for months, the ethical police have been away following the demise of Masha Amini in September 2022. Amini was picked for not sporting a hijab and later killed in custody. The authorities introduced a brand new marketing campaign forcing ladies to put on Islamic headscarves in public following that.
In early 2023, Iranian authorities launched a heavy crackdown on the protesters, just about ending the protests in opposition to the obligatory hijab. Reportedly, 500 protesters have been killed, and over 20,000 have been detained by the police in the course of the protests.
On Sunday (seventeenth July) night, following the stories of makes an attempt to arrest the ladies with out the hijab, hundreds of protesters gathered in Rasht, northern Iran. According to Iran International, hundreds of individuals have been there on the protest after the ethical police whisked away three ladies. The onlookers rescued them, and there have been unverified stories of tear fuel and gunshots.
Images and stories on social media point out that a big crowd of individuals held a protest gathering exterior the town corridor of Rasht in northern Iran on Sunday night after safety forces tried to arrest three ladies over hijab.https://t.co/nhbXN4U8nH pic.twitter.com/6Z9r0jxwlF
— Iran International English (@IranIntl_En) July 16, 2023
In December 2022, there have been stories of ethical police patrolling the streets, however the authorities denied it. There have been claims that the ethical police was disbanded, however the authorities denied it amidst the protests.
Police spokesman Gen Saeed Montazerol Mahdi stated in an announcement that ethical police would resume notifying after which detaining ladies in the event that they have been discovered with out hijab in public. Masih Alinejab, one of the crucial outstanding Iranian activists presently dwelling within the United States, shared a video of a lady being threatened and crushed by the feminine ethical police.
This is Iran in the present day and that is how the morality police arrested a teen for not sporting a hijab. Mahsa Zhina Amini was taken away like this, then killed. Where are these journalists who excitedly reported the cancellation of these morality police? #WomanLifeFreedom pic.twitter.com/xndXlnnkSB
— Masih Alinejad 🏳️ (@AlinejadMasih) July 15, 2023
She wrote, “This is Iran today, and this is how the morality police arrested a teenager for not wearing a hijab. Mahsa Zhina Amini was taken away like this and then killed. Where are those journalists who excitedly reported the cancellation of that morality police?”
Death of Mahsa Amini and anti-hijab protests
Iran noticed a wave of protests after a 22-year-old woman named Mahsa Amini died within the custody of Iran’s Morality Police that detained her for improperly donning her headband. Several Iranian residents hit the streets in solidarity with Amini. In assist of the victims, a lot of ladies, together with schoolgirls, burnt their hijabs, and ladies all over the place chopped their hair in protest. Protests broke out in lots of of locations across the nation after her demise.
