NCRI Staff
NCRI - Iranian police have threatened women with lengthy prison sentences for participating in protests against the compulsory veil. The police said in an official statement last week that women could be charged with “inciting corruption and prostitution”.
Since December, there have been dozens of women attacked and arrested in Iran for peacefully protesting against compulsory veiling – a practice that Amnesty International has described as “discriminatory and abusive”.
This is just one more example of how the authorities in the country are escalating a violent crackdown on the rights of women.
The Deputy Director for the Middle East and North Africa at Amnesty International, Magdalena Mughrabi, said: “This is a deeply retrograde move by the Iranian authorities in their ongoing persecution of women who dare to speak out against compulsory veiling. It places many women at serious and immediate risk of unjust imprisonment while sending a chilling message to others to keep quiet while their rights are being violated.”
She added that women’s rights in Iran are violated by authorities that are compelling them to cover their hair. Mughrabi said that this practice has been going on for decades and goes against their dignity. “Rather than threatening women with jail terms for claiming their human rights, the authorities should immediately abolish the discriminatory, abusive and degrading laws and practices of compulsory veiling.”
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