The Iranian student, arrested on Saturday in Tehran after undressing in public, was “transferred to a specialized care center”, announced the Iranian embassy in Paris in a press release on Wednesday.
The Iranian student, arrested Saturday in Tehran after undressing in public in front of her university, was “transferred to a specialized care center”announced the Iranian embassy in Paris in a press release on Wednesday.
“The student in question suffers from psychological fragility and was transferred by ambulance from social emergency services to a specialized care center”according to the press release, which affirms that it is a matter “private”.
“Immoral and contrary to customs”
The Iranian Minister of Science, Research and Technology, Hossein Simaei, said on Wednesday that the behavior of the Iranian woman who undressed in public on Saturday in front of a university in Tehran was “immoral”.
“She broke the norms and her behavior was not based on sharia (Islamic law, Editor’s note), it was immoral and contrary to customs”declared Mr. Simaei, on the sidelines of a government meeting.
The student did not “not” been excluded from her university, added the minister.
“The motivations and reasons for this student’s action are the subject of an investigation”
The video of the young woman in her underwear, first sitting then walking slowly in front of Azad University in Tehran, has gone viral since last weekend on social networks.
Iran’s authorities must immediately & unconditionally release the university student who was violently arrested on 2 Nov after she removed her clothes in protest against abusive enforcement of compulsory veiling by security officials at Tehran’s Islamic Azad University. 1/2 pic.twitter.com/lI1JXYsgtm
— Amnesty Iran (@AmnestyIran) https://twitter.com/AmnestyIran/status/1852759513494909228?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
Media in Iran broadcast images of the scene, blurring the young girl.
“Those who republished these images propagated prostitution”castigated Hossein Simaei, believing that this gesture was not justified “neither on the moral level nor on the religious level”.
“The motivations and reasons for this student’s action are the subject of an investigation”Azad University public relations manager Amir Mahjoub said on Saturday.
“University security intervened and handed her over to the police station”he wrote on the social network X blocked in Iran, claiming that the student was “under great pressure and suffered from mental disorders”.
Protest sign “against the abusive application of the compulsory wearing of the veil”
Iranian government spokesperson Fatemeh Mohajerani on Wednesday denied reports that the student had been brutally arrested.
The foreign-based organization Amnesty International says the student “removed his clothes to protest against the abusive application of the compulsory wearing of the veil by security agents” of the university. This arrest denounced by the NGO is reminiscent of the death of Mahsa Amini. The young woman was killed after being arrested by the morality police. The latter criticized him for not having respected the dress code.
Since the establishment of the Islamic Republic in 1979, the law in Iran has imposed a strict dress code on women, who are required to wear headscarves and loose clothing that conceals their shapes.
In an unusual statement, the Iranian embassy in France assured that “this student suffered from certain family problems and fragile psychological conditions.”
“Signs of abnormal behavior had already been observed by those around him”underlines the press release.
