The Iranian police announced this Saturday that they will install cameras and other “smart means” to avoid “tensions” and “conflicts” over the application of the law that requires the use of the ‘hijab’ or Islamic veil.
“The police will use innovative tools and smart cameras on public roads to avoid any tension and conflict with compatriots (…) to identify people who violate the ‘Hijab’ and Public Chastity Law,” the police explained in a statement. statement, cited by the Mizan news agency and the American Farsi radio station Farda, an affiliate of Radio Liberty.
These cameras will initially serve to send “warning messages” to those who break the law and “warn them about the legal consequences of recidivism in this crime.”
However, one of the most radical members of the Farvardin Islamic Council, Hossein Jalali, warned about the sanctions that can be applied, in particular economic sanctions, as well as the withdrawal of driving licence, passport or internet service.
The authorities also warned radical groups not to take the law into their own hands and not to assault or harass women who do not wear the Islamic headscarf.
Several images and videos of verbal and physical attacks against non-hijab women have been published in recent months, such as last week, when a member of the Basij paramilitaries threw yogurt at a non-hijab woman in Shandiz.
After the death in September of the Iranian-Kurdish Mahsa Amini, in police custody, allegedly for not wearing the Islamic veil correctly, protests against the government multiplied, as well as the number of Iranian women who do not wear the ‘hijab’ in public .
Source: TSF
