Iran’s police announced on Saturday that they plan to install “smart cameras” to identify and punish women who violate the Islamic Republic’s strict dress code.

The police intend to “identify people who break the rules, through smart devices and cameras placed in public places and roads,” the institution said in a statement.

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The authorities will thus be able to send “the evidence and warning messages to violators of the hijab law,” or the Islamic veil, “to inform them of the legal consequences of recidivism in this crime,” he added.

A growing number of Iranians have challenged the mandatory wearing of the headscarf since the wave of protests began following the death in September of a 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman, Mahsa Amini, after she was arrested for alleged negligence in wearing it. of a headscarf. comply with the rule.

The veil was lifted shortly after the triumph of the 1979 Islamic Revolution.