In response to the endless protests that have been taking place for months in Iranthe government announced that it will close the entity in charge of monitoring that citizens comply with its restrictive laws.
This is the morality police, a group that was criticized for causing the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old girl, last September for not wearing her headscarf correctly. This organization was dedicated to controlling women’s clothing and punishing them when they had the opportunity.
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The case of Mahsa Amini, who was arrested and beaten to death by morality police officers, was the catalyst for hundreds of demonstrations by women tired of the repression.
Mohammad Jafar Montazeri, Iran’s attorney general, reported that the country’s authorities have made the decision to abolish the morale police. The official stressed that “the morality police have nothing to do with the judiciary and have been closed from the place where they were established.”
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The bad hijab (Islamic veil) in the country, especially in the holy city of Qom, is one of the main concerns of the judiciary as well as our revolutionary society, but it should be noted that judicial action is the last resort and cultural measures they precede any other,” Montazeri said in a speech in the holy city of Qom, the theological center of Iran.
In addition, he mentioned in the Iranian Parliament that the law that obliges women to wear hijab would be reviewed.
However, activists and supporters do not expect the treatment of women in Iran to truly change.
Iran’s Center for the Promotion of Virtue and Prohibition of Vice affirmed on Monday “that the mission of the Morality Police has ended”, but that new technologies are being studied to control women’s clothing, which is still important for their authorities.
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