Iranian police check whether women in cars are wearing the Islamic headscarf and send messages to stepdaughters’ cellphones
THE police in Iran starts again to check if women riding in cars wear the Islamic headscarf, local media reported today, more than 100 days after Mahsa Amini’s death.
Iran has been rocked by protests since the death of 22-year-old Amini on September 16 after she was arrested by morality police for not wearing the hijab properly.
“The police have started implementing the new stage of the Nazer-1 program (‘surveillance’ in Persian) across the country,” Fars news agency quoted a “high-ranking police official” as saying.
Under this program, Iranian police check whether women riding in cars are wearing the Islamic headscarf and send a message to the stepdaughters’ cellphones, he explained.
According to Fars, the message will read: “It was noticed that you were not wearing a hijab inside your vehicle. It is necessary to respect the rules of society and make sure that this does not happen again.”
The Nazer program was implemented by the police in 2020.
After the protests that broke out after Amini’s death, the morality police stopped arresting women who were in public without wearing a headscarf and taking them to police stations.
In early December, Iran’s attorney general, Mohammad Jafar Montazeri, announced that the morality police had been disbanded. However, activists reacted with caution to this statement, which was made during a press conference given by Montessori and did not come from a clear statement from the Ministry of the Interior.
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