Iran's Morality Police Back On Streets To Resume Headscarf Patrols Months After Mahsa Amini's Death

Months after Amini's death, Iran’s morality police have resumed patrols to enforce the country’s hijab laws and ensure that women obey dress codes and cover their hair with a headscarf in public.

Iran’s morality police have returned to the streets and resumed patrols to enforce the country’s hijab laws and ensure that women obey dress codes and cover their hair with a headscarf in public. This comes months after the death of a young woman, Mahsa Amini, who died in custody following her arrest in Tehran for allegedly breaking the strict dress code for women. Amini’s death triggered a massive nationwide protest, due to which the patrols were stopped. According to the United Nations, the agitation is believed to have claimed more than 300 lives so far.

The Islamic hardliners raised their demand to resume the patrols for some time, as reported by the BBC. The officers will initially warn women who are not obeying the rules during the patrols, police spokesperson Saeed Montazerolmahdi said, as reported by the hardline Tasnim news agency.

The protests, which started in September last year across the country following Amini’s death, saw furious Iranian protesters from all layers of society burn their head coverings. They shouted anti-government slogans and tossed turbans off Muslim clerics' heads to demonstrate their defiance, which is now seen as the biggest challenge to Iran's leaders since the 1979 revolution.

Earlier in May, Iran executed three men, convicted of killing security force members during protests triggered by Amini's death. The executions drew condemnation from Western governments. Majid Kazemi, Saleh Mirhashemi, and Saeed Yaghoubi were found guilty of "moharebeh" or waging "war against God" for shooting dead three members of the security forces at a demonstration in the central city of Isfahan on November 16, the judiciary said on its Mizan Online news website.

The executions drew flak from the European Union. EU condemned the executions "in the strongest possible terms", foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said in a statement, as reported by AFP. He called on Tehran to "refrain from applying the death penalty and carrying out future executions", adding that authorities should abide by "their obligations under international law" and respect "the rights to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly," as quoted by AFP.

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