Iran Protests: Iran has said that it is revisiting a decades-old mandatory hijab rule that mandates women to cover their heads, following more than two months of protests over the dress code.
Protests have rocked Iran since September 16, following the death in detention of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian of Kurdish descent who was seized by morality police for allegedly violating Sharia-based hijab regulations.
Protesters have burned their head coverings, yelled anti-government slogans, and thrown turbans off the heads of Muslim clerics. Since Mahsa Amini’s death, an increasing number of women, notably in Tehran’s fashionable north, have refused to wear hijab.
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Attorney general, Mohammad Jafar Montazeri informs
Iran’s attorney general, Mohammad Jafar Montazeri, was cited as saying, “Both parliament and the court are working (on the subject)” of whether the legislation needs to be changed.
According to the ISNA news agency, he did not clarify what the two committees, which are mostly controlled by conservatives, could change in the law.
The assessment team met with parliament’s culture commission on Wednesday and “will see the conclusions in a week or two,” according to the attorney general.
Iran’s republican and Islamic roots, according to President Ebrahim Raisi, are constitutionally anchored.
“But there are flexible approaches of applying the constitution,” he added on television.
In April 1983, four years after the Islamic Revolution that deposed the US-backed monarchy, all women in Iran were required to wear the hijab headscarf.
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Conservatives v/s reformists
It is still a highly contentious issue in a country where conservatives believe it should be mandatory and reformists believe it should be left up to individual choice.
For the first time this week, a general in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps stated that more than 300 people have died in the unrest since Mahsa Amini’s death.
The Supreme National Security Council of Iran announced on Saturday that the number of individuals murdered during the protests “exceeds 200.” According to state news agency IRNA, the figure includes security agents, civilians, “separatists,” and “rioters.”
According to the Oslo-based non-governmental organisation Iran Human Rights, at least 448 individuals have been “killed by security forces in the continuing national protests.”
Last Monday, UN Human Rights Chief Volker Turk stated that 14,000 people, including children, had been arrested during the protest crackdown.
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