Cross posted from: feddit.de/post/11613510
Under a new campaign called “nour” or “light,” endorsed by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iranian “morality police” are out in force on so-called “guidance patrols” looking for women who refuse to wear the hijab, or headscarf.
One 25-year-old woman said she was accosted on the streets of Tehran while on her way to university on April 20.
She said she was surrounded by dozens of police officers who demanded that she cover her hair, and when she resisted, they quickly resorted to violence, pulling out some of her hair, and verbally harassing her as they dragged her into the van.
“At that moment, I didn’t fully understand what was happening, I just knew they were beating me. Later, I saw that several parts of my body were bruised,” she said.
As she was being beaten and harassed by police, the woman said she thought of the “Women, Life Freedom” movement, which started in September 2022 when 22-year-old Jina Mahsa Amini died after being taken into custody by the morality police in Tehran for allegedly improperly wearing a hijab.