Iranian woman undresses in front of her university to protest against the moral police

It was an act of bravery that could cost him his life. On Saturday, a student at Islamic Azad University in Tehran, Iran, identified as Ahoo Daryaei30, was harassed and assaulted by campus security officers over wearing her headscarf. In protest, she undressed and walked in her underwear to the outskirts of the institution. Witnesses filmed the scene and the video quickly went around the world. Moments later, other witnesses recorded his violent arrest.

In Iran, Islamic law imposes a very strict dress code on women. Wearing a headscarf is compulsory and they must wear loose clothing that camouflages their shapes. Last weekend, Ahoo Daryaei was violently arrested by security guards at her university while she was bareheaded. During the altercation, his clothes were torn. She then undressed in protest. In her underwear and with her hair still down, she walked in and out of campus and sat on a low wall. In the building opposite the university, residents filmed the scene. A few moments later, around ten security agents brutally overpowered her before taking her by force into a vehicle, people present at the court testified. Telegraph. The young woman was reportedly injured during this arrest and suffered head trauma after being violently slammed against a vehicle. Witnesses also reported traces of blood at the scene of the arrest. According to Fars News, a media outlet affiliated with the Revolutionary Guards, she was reportedly transferred to a psychiatric hospital, a strategy often used by the regime of the Islamic Republic to discredit the acts of resistance of Iranian women. His location and state of health have not been communicated.

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The rules governing women's dress codes should be tightened with a new bill, still being examined in the Iranian parliament. However, the authorities have already started to apply it. According to The Telegrapharticle 50 of the new bill condemns any person “naked, half-naked or wearing clothing deemed inappropriate in public” under penalty of being immediately arrested and handed over to the judicial authorities. The bill also implements gender segregation in universities, hospitals, educational and administrative centers, parks and even tourist sites. Anyone who breaks the new rules would, among other things, be banned from leaving the country and using social media for a period of six months to two years.

Despite an increasingly authoritarian regime where the death penalty is still in force, many women carry out acts of resistance and appear in public without a headscarf. In 2017, images of the Iranian Vida Movahed posing bareheaded and brandishing her hijab at the end of a stick as a sign of protest against the compulsory wearing of the headscarf had gone around the world. Having become a symbol of Iranian resistance, the young woman was sentenced to one year in prison. Since 2022, after the death of the young Kurd Mahsa Amini, Beaten to death in police custody because of her “badly worn” headscarf, Iranian women rose up massively. The Femme Vie Liberté revolt movement, taken up globally, was repressed with the greatest brutality by the Iranian authorities. NGOs report at least 551 deaths and thousands of people arrested, including the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize Narges Mohammadi. This new generation of women and men are nevertheless determined to lead this revolution against the mullahs to its conclusion. “These girls will one day overthrow Ayatollah Ali Khameneithe future of Iran belongs to free women, not to the mullahs,” a student from Tehran told Telegraph.