Ignoring international outcry and calls for respect for human rights, the judiciary re-imposes a law that carries severe penalties while executing protesters
Iran continues its crackdown on … atheists, as the country is shaken by protests after the death of 22-year-old Mahsha Amini, on September 16, 2022, from beatings she received after she was arrested by the morality police.
Ignoring international outcry and calls for respect for human rights, Iran’s judiciary wants to re-implement a law that provides for severe penalties, such as exile, for those who violate the Islamic headscarf requirement.
according to Iran’s Mehr news agency, “the police recently received a directive from the attorney general ordering them to act strictly against any violation of the use of the headscarf.”
“Not wearing a headscarf is a flagrant crime and law enforcement must arrest the perpetrators and bring them to justice,” Deputy Prosecutor Abdulsamad Khoramabadi said today.
In this context, “the courts must sentence the offenders, in addition to the payment of a fine, to additional penalties (…) such as exile, the prohibition of practicing a profession and the closure of the workplace”, said the Iranian judge.
These penalties apply to anyone who does not respect the Islamic headscarf requirement, such as a woman not covered by a headscarf or a restaurateur who served a customer who does not wear a hijab.
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Since the wave of protest following Amini’s death, more and more women have been seen without headscarves on the street, or in the car, without causing a reaction from the morality police, which had been “abolished” when protest demonstrations had reached their peak and popular anger had become “dangerous”.
However, in early January, local media reported that the police had resumed monitoring the observance of the hijab in cars, sending a message to the owner of the vehicle if the woman driving it was not wearing a headscarf, but without threatening penalties.
Despite this, thousands of people have been arrested, according to the authorities, in the “riots” while at least 11 have been executed or sentenced to death, having been found guilty of “corruption on earth” and being “enemies of God” (” mohareb” in Persian).
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According to the UN, Tehran is using the death sentences of protesters to intimidate the Iranian population and silence protest, which amounts to “state murder”, adding that the executions violate international humanitarian law.
“The use of criminal proceedings as a weapon to punish people who exercise their fundamental rights, such as those who participate in or organize demonstrations, is defined as state murder,” UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk said in a statement.
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