Iran reviewing decades-old obligatory hijab regulation amid protests
Iran is reviewing its decades-old obligatory hijab regulation amid widespread protests within the Islamic Republic that had been sparked by the loss of life of Mahsa Amini in police custody. The 22-year-old lady died in custody after being arrested by the morality police.
New Delhi,UPDATED: Dec 4, 2022 07:29 IST
A protester holds a portrait of Mahsa Amini throughout an illustration in help of Amini, a younger Iranian lady who died after being arrested in Tehran by the Islamic Republic’s morality police in September. (Photo: AFP)
By India Today Web Desk: Iran has stated that it’s reviewing a decades-old obligatory hijab regulation that requires ladies to cowl their heads, amid over two months of protests linked to the costume code.
Protests have swept Iran because the September 16 following the loss of life of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian of Kurdish origin in custody after being arrested by the morality police for allegedly flouting the Sharia-based hijab regulation.
Protesters have burned their head coverings, shouted anti-government slogans and tossed turbans off Muslim clerics’ heads. since Mahsa Amini’s loss of life, a rising variety of ladies haven’t been observing hijab, significantly in Tehran’s modern north.
“Both parliament and the judiciary are working (on the issue)” of whether or not the regulation wants any modifications, Iran’s lawyer common Mohammad Jafar Montazeri was quoted as saying by information company AFP.
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Quoted by the ISNA information company, he didn’t specify what may very well be modified within the regulation by the 2 our bodies, that are largely within the palms of conservatives.
The evaluation staff met on Wednesday with parliament’s cultural fee “and will see the results in a week or two”, the lawyer common stated.
President Ebrahim Raisi on Saturday stated Iran’s republican and Islamic foundations had been constitutionally entrenched.
“But there are methods of implementing the constitution that can be flexible,” he stated in televised feedback.
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The hijab scarf turned compulsory for all ladies in Iran in April 1983, 4 years after the Islamic Revolution that overthrew the US-backed monarchy.
It stays a extremely delicate problem in a rustic the place conservatives insist it needs to be obligatory, whereas reformists need to depart it as much as particular person selection.
A common in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps this week, for the primary time, stated greater than 300 folks have misplaced their lives within the unrest since Mahsa Amini’s loss of life.
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Iran’s prime safety physique, the Supreme National Security Council, on Saturday stated the variety of folks killed through the protests “exceeds 200”. Cited by state information company IRNA, it stated the determine included safety officers, civilians and “separatists” in addition to “rioters”.
Oslo-based non-governmental organisation Iran Human Rights on Tuesday stated at the very least 448 folks had been “killed by security forces in the ongoing nationwide protests”.
UN rights chief Volker Turk stated final week that 14,000 folks, together with youngsters, had been arrested within the protest crackdown.
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Dec 4, 2022
