A young woman stripped to her underwear at an Iranian university on Saturday in protest against the country’s strict Islamic dress code, according to online videos and media reports.

A video posted on social media shows security guards at his annex Islamic Azad University to hold the unknown woman. University spokesman Amir Mahjob told X that “at the police station,…it was found that he was under severe mental stress and had a mental disorder”.However, some social media users say the woman’s action was a deliberate protest.

“For most women, being …in their underwear in public is one of their worst nightmares… This is a reaction to (the authorities’) foolish insistence on compulsory hijab,” X user Lei La said in a comment accompanying the video.

The fate of the woman was not known, but the Hamshahri mass circulation newspaper stated on her website: “An informed source said that the perpetrator of this act has serious mental problems and, after investigations, will probably be transferred to a psychiatric hospital».

More and more women have defied the authorities by discarding their hijabs following nationwide protests following the September 2022 death of a young Iranian woman, Mahsha Amini, who was detained by morality police for allegedly violating hijab rules. Security forces violently suppressed the uprising.