Iranian activists called protests for the next three days on Monday, with mobilizations and strikes, after Iran’s attorney general announced that the morality police, at the origin of months of protests in the country, had been “shut down”. .
Iran’s attorney general announces end to morality police
“Unity is one of the factors for victory”a group of youth from the neighborhoods of the capital, Tehran, said on social media, calling for a strike on Monday, followed by demonstrations in the suburbs on Tuesday and a meeting in the central square of Azadi on Wednesday.
Iran has been rocked by months of protests, culminating in calls for the ouster of the Islamic Republic’s religious leaders, following the death of 22-year-old Masha Amini, who had been detained by morality police for wearing the Islamic headscarf. wrong way.
In almost three months of protests, more than 400 people died and at least two thousand were arrested and accused of several crimes for participating in the mobilizations, including six sentenced to death.
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On Saturday, the attorney general, Mohamed Jafar Montazeri, revealed that the morality police “have been eliminated,” the ISNA news agency reported. The agency did not provide details and the state media did not refer to this alleged decision.
The Associated Press (AP) news agency could not confirm the current status of the force, established in 2005 with the task of detaining and questioning people who violated the current Islamic dress code.
Since September, several reports indicate a reduction in the number of moral police officers in Iranian cities and a increase in the number of women appearing in public without the veileven if it is still against Iranian law.
Attorney General Montazeri did not specify the future of the morality police, nor whether its extinction was applicable at the national and permanent level. However, he added, the Iranian judicial system “will continue to examine behavior at the community level”????????
On Friday, ISNA reproduced Montazeri’s remarks in which he claimed the government was reviewing the mandatory law on women’s hijab use.
“We are working quickly on the hijab issue and doing everything we can to ensure a sensible solution to address this phenomenon that breaks everyone’s heart,” Montazeri said, without elaborating.
Source: Observadora
