Iranian student strips and arrested by morality police

I really hope so too.

I suspect that if the media had not got hold of this story she would not "have been found ill" but would by now be incarcerated.

Iranian women who resist wearing the hijab are to be given treatment at a specialist mental health clinic in Tehran.

The centre, called the Clinic for Quitting Hijab Removal, is the Islamic Republic’s latest attempt to quash female dissent that has swept the country since the “Woman, Life, Freedom” uprising in 2022.
Mehri Talebi Darestani, who will run the centre, said it “will be for the scientific and psychological treatment of removing the hijab, specifically for the teenage generation, young adults, and women seeking social and Islamic identity”.

She said the project is focused on promoting “dignity, modesty, chastity, and hijab” and claimed that attendance would be “optional”.

The clinic will be overseen by Iran’s Headquarters for Enjoining the Good and Forbidding the Evil, the government body responsible for enforcing strict religious standards across society.

The department is under sanctions by the UK and other countries for human rights abuses and its brutal sanctioning of women who do not adhere to Iran’s Islamic dress codes.

It is led by Mohammed Saleh Hashemi Golpayegani, who was directly appointed by supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Part of a longer article in the Telegraph but reprinted in full by yahoo Iran sets up mental health clinic to ‘treat’ women who refuse to wear hijab

"She broke the norms, and her behaviour was not based on sharia, was immoral and uncustomary,"

"Those who republished this footage spread prostitution," said Simaei, adding such incidents "should not be encouraged as they are neither morally nor religiously justified."

Media outlets in Iran shared a blurred clip of the student.

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/immoral-iran-minister-slams-female-students-public-act-of-stripping-6959887

Concern has grown over the whereabouts and welfare of the young woman, with activists worried authorities could confine her in a psychiatric institution. The statement from the Paris embassy described her as a mother of two children who was separated from her husband. "Once she has recovered she will resume her studies at the university. Although, of course, the final decision rests with the institutions concerned," the embassy said.

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2024/11/06/iranian-woman-who-stripped-in-protest-moved-to-specialized-care-centre-iran-embassy-in-paris_6731852_4.html

Any government that have morality police can fuck off.
And I'd lay money the morality police doesn't police all IE politicians and religious leaders.

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An amazingly brave woman. I hope the international attention will help keep her (relatively) safe.

What a brave young woman, I was also in awe of the young women cutting their hair in protest.I was surprised when that didn't become copied in support across the world.

if you watch the video, she stands and walks slowly around, she is calm and defiant and incredible.

I cannot imagine her bravery, really hope she is ok.

Poor girl, I hope she's going to be OK.

I think she just had enough after being harassed over a hijab and stripped-off in frustration.

That's quite an iconic picture of her sitting there, calmly awaiting the violence and abuse she knew would be coming her way.

Very sadly, she is probably being tortured to death as we speak. How anyone could run a regime like that in the name of religion I will never know.

Yeah I remember that thread, I said then it was bollocks and I’ll say it now. Any leader the Ayatollahs permit is not going to be a expanding womens rights. I wish I had been wrong. Iranian women are incredibly brave.

There are some even more powerful versions of OP's picture circulating in which everything apart from the student is in monochrome. I was only able to find this not-very-good one when I looked just now.

Iranian women used to be so glamorous, so free, so stylish and beautiful. Intelligent, ambitious, prosperous.

Their country has gone into the darkest time.

Women's freedom on this earth must never be taken for granted.

Bloody hell, she's brave.

Yes I remember this came up on a thread about how a more "liberal" President was now in post. (another example of sloppy western "news")

Had they done their homework they would have seen this https://www.iranintl.com/en/202407083550

In this version of what happened apparently Univesity authorities are claiming its because she had a "mental disorder".
https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-827311 (link includes some videos of what happened)

But who wouldn't go over the top. To comply with wearing the hijab and then to be told she was wearing it "improperly".

The tension and fear that women in Iran must live with everyday is beyond anything most of us have to live with.

So whether she was consiously brave or just desperate at being constantly being policed, I do hope she is safe.

But feel gloomy about her future going by other arrests.

These young women are so courageous and what is happening to them is so awful .

She was so sick of their shit. She knew they’d kill her and they probably have. Another martyred woman. Hopefully it makes a difference but 2 years from Mahsa Amini things feel more shit if anything. When my friend visited Iran from Afghanistan this year she found the police so terrifying she couldn’t wait to go back to the taliban.