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On September 16, 2022, Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian girl was killed in the custody of Iran's morality police in Tehran, for not properly wearing a compulsory hijab. In Iran, the slogan "Women, Life, Freedom" was first used at Mahsa's burial and later followed through nationwide protests against the totalitarian regime of Iran."
[55] [56] Grievances expressed in the protest go beyond those of many previous Iranian protests, and beyond protesting Amini's death, demanding an end to the mandatory hijab, [4] an end to the morality police, [5] the Supreme Leader, the theocratic regime, [57] and to human rights violations perpetrated by Iran's Guidance Patrol.
The Guidance Patrol, the religious morality police of Iran's government, arrested Amini for allegedly not wearing the hijab in accordance with government standards. The Law Enforcement Command of the Islamic Republic of Iran stated that she had a heart attack at a police station, collapsed, and fell into a coma before being transferred to a ...
The U.S. government has imposed sanctions on Iran’s morality police after the death in custody of a woman who'd been accused of wearing her Islamic headgear too loosely. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein ...
The role of the morality police, which enforces veiling laws, came under scrutiny after a detainee, 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, died in its custody in mid-September.
Hundreds of MPs call for action against Iran’s mass use of the death penalty. ... followed the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini while in the custody of the country’s brutal morality police. ...
The morality police in Iran are responsible for ensuring compliance with the country's compulsory dress code laws. [23] As of September 2023, a morality crackdown is in process. The list of punishments for women who disobey the dress code keeps intensifying. Hefty fines, banking restrictions, business closures, jail time, forced labour and ...
STORY: Iran's public prosecutor is saying that the country's morality police have been shut down, following months of protests that have wracked the country in the wake of the death of Mahsa Amini ...