Iranian woman strips clothes in protest after being assaulted for improperly wearing hijab

[Claira]

Tehran’s security forces arrested an Iranian woman for stripping off her clothes in protest after she was allegedly assaulted for improperly wearing her hijab, in violation of Tehran’s strict modesty laws, according to international media reports and footage from Saturday.

The young woman was assaulted by security forces at Tehran's Islamic Azad University, according to Iran International.

https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-827311

[Claira]

Iran says student in underwear protest moved to ‘specialized care center’

An Iranian student who stripped to her underwear in Tehran in protest at alleged harassment over her clothing was transferred to a center of “specialized care,” Iran’s embassy to Paris says. “The student in question suffers from psychological fragility and was transferred by an ambulance of the emergency social services to a specialized care center,” it says in a statement, without giving further details on the nature of the center.

Concern has grown over the whereabouts and welfare of the young woman, with activists worried authorities could confine her in a psychiatric institution.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/iran-says-student-in-underwear-protest-moved-to-specialized-care-center/

[CrimsonKing]

Hopefully she's not stoned to death.

[Claira]

1 hour ago, CrimsonKing said:

Hopefully she's not stoned to death.

Not likely after all the press she's had, but I bet where they've got her at is hell on earth.

[CrimsonKing]

On a lighter note...

https://nypost.com/2024/11/06/us-news/irans-currency-falls-to-an-all-time-low-as-trump-clinches-the-us-presidency/

🤣

[Claira]

3 minutes ago, CrimsonKing said:

On a lighter note...

https://nypost.com/2024/11/06/us-news/irans-currency-falls-to-an-all-time-low-as-trump-clinches-the-us-presidency/

🤣

Great that their currency has fallen, can't wait for the same thing to happen to their regime.

[Claira]

There's some good news coming out of Iran for a change:

Iran says no charges filed against student who stripped to underwear

Iran’s judiciary says it has not issued an indictment against a student who stripped down to her underwear earlier this month at a university in Tehran.

“Considering that she was sent to the hospital, and it was found that she was ill, she was handed over to her family… and no judicial case has been filed against her,” judiciary spokesman Asghar Jahangir tells a news conference, without naming her.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/iran-says-no-charges-filed-against-student-who-stripped-to-underwear/

[Tatetopa]

Pleading ignorance here.  How much more restrictive does Iran have to be to reach Afghanistan levels of repression.

[Claira]

13 minutes ago, Tatetopa said:

Pleading ignorance here.  How much more restrictive does Iran have to be to reach Afghanistan levels of repression.

Women in Iran are significantly better off than their counterparts in Afghanistan (they are permitted an education, employment, etc.), but Iranian authorities have recently escalated their assault against women's rights, primarily through an increasingly violent crackdown on those who defy compulsory veiling laws. The fear, naturally, is that such draconian laws will lead to more laws of the same ilk.