The head of French diplomacy Jean-Noël Barrot praised, this Tuesday, November 5 on France 2, the “courage” of the young Iranian woman arrested after having undressed in public to protest against the harassment of security agents, in a video that went viral on social media.
It is the heroism of the act that was praised here. Jean-Noël Barrot, spokesperson for French diplomacy, returned this Tuesday morning to the event which took place in Iran on November 2. “I salute the courage of this young woman who is showing resistance and has risen to the rank of icon for the fight of women in Iran, for the fight of women wherever their rights are threatened,” he said. declared on France 2.
“Our embassy in Iran is monitoring its situation very carefully and reporting to us hour by hour,” added Jean-Noël Barrot without giving further details.
The young woman, a student at the prestigious Azad University in Tehran, was harassed by security agents who believed she was not respecting the strict mandatory Islamic dress code, according to activist groups who revealed the case on Saturday.
She stripped to her underwear in protest and marched outside the university, in a video that went viral, before being violently taken away by security officers. His fate has since been unknown.
The Iranian Fars agency, for its part, reported the incident and published a blurred photo of the student. According to her, the young woman wore “inappropriate” clothes in class and “stripped off” after being warned by security agents.
Islamic law in Iran imposes a very strict dress code on women, who are required to wear headscarves and loose clothing that conceals their shapes. Iranian women are at the origin of an unprecedented revolt movement in the country after the death of the young Kurd Mahsa Amini in September 2022, arrested for not having respected the dress code.
Under the Taliban, the invisible struggle of women
The Femme Vie Liberté movement has been massively repressed by the Iranian authorities, with at least 551 deaths and thousands of people arrested, according to NGOs.
