Iranian Female Student: A case of protest against women’s dress code has come to light again in Iran. On Saturday (November 2, 2024), a student was arrested after taking off her clothes on the university campus. The video of this incident is going viral on social media. According to media reports, the student had taken off her clothes in protest against the country’s strict Islamic dress code. Meanwhile, in some reports it was also said that the girl was misbehaved by the morality police, in protest against which she took this step. Iranian journalist Masih Alinejad wrote about the incident on “Marched on campus – challenging a system that continues to control women’s bodies.”
Quoting an Iranian journalist, news agency IANS reported, “Her move will strengthen the fight for the freedom of Iranian women. Yes, we use our bodies as weapons to fight a system that keeps women from their This incident happened at Tehran’s Science and Research University. After the incident the girl was arrested by the local authorities.
“Indecent behavior was done by the student”
According to Iran’s government agency IRNA, Amir Mahjoub, Director General of Public Relations of Islamic Azad University, reacted to the incident on X account on Sunday. He claimed that the student had committed wrongdoing on November 2. According to Mahzoub, after the indecent act by the student at the Science and Research Branch of the Islamic Azad University, located in northern Tehran, campus security took action and handed her over to law enforcement officers.
Yesterday an Iranian girl at the university in Tehran was attacked by the ‘morality Police’ for not wearing her hijab properly so she took off her clothes in protest. This artwork says everything about the struggle of women inside Iran and the smallness of the regime that… pic.twitter.com/8v1MJQacu2
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The student was under mental pressure!
After investigation it was also revealed that the student was under mental pressure. The officer rejected media reports that campus security had touched the girl.
Amnesty Iran demands the release of the student
Amnesty Iran has demanded the immediate release of the student. “Iranian authorities should immediately and unconditionally release the university student who was violently arrested on November 2 when she approached security officers at Tehran’s Islamic Azad University,” the human rights organization wrote in X-Post on Saturday. Authorities must protect her from torture and other ill-treatment and ensure access to family and a lawyer until she is released in protest against the mandatory burqa. “Those responsible must be held accountable.”
Protest against women’s dress code increases in Iran
In fact, in recent times, opposition to the dress code by women has increased in Iran. After the 1979 revolution, wearing hijab was made mandatory for women in Iran. These restrictions gave rise to several movements by activists and ordinary citizens that challenge the mandatory hijab. The death of Mahsa Amini, a young Iranian woman, in the custody of morality police in September 2022 led to large-scale protests against hijab bans across the country, which were suppressed by the government. Amini was arrested for not wearing hijab as per government standards. The government claimed that she suffered a heart attack at a police station, collapsed and fell into a coma before being taken to hospital. However, witnesses present there, including the women detained with Amini, said that she was badly beaten and died due to police brutality.