Iranian minister calls behavior of student who undressed in public immoral

“The motivations and reasons for this student’s action are under investigation” Azad University public relations officer 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“.

Faced with the concern expressed about the fate of the young woman, the spokesperson for the Iranian government, Fatemeh Mohajerani, on Wednesday denied reports according to which the student had been brutally arrested.

The overseas-based organization Amnesty International says the student “removed her clothes to protest against the abusive application of compulsory veiling by security agents” from the university, without supporting its sources.

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.