The Iranian authorities ordered the arrest of two women who appear in a video that went viral on social networks in which they were attacked by a man for not wearing the Islamic veil, amid a request from the president of the Supreme Court for the judicial system to pursue “any kind of abnormality against the law and ‘sharia’ (Islamic law)”.
In the images that circulated on the networks, two women are seen with their heads uncovered inside a store who, after an argument with a man, are attacked by him, who throws a bucket at them with something that appears to be yogurt and is later confronted by the owner of the premises, reported the AFP news agency.
The authorities issued an arrest warrant against the man “on charges of committing insulting acts and disturbing the order”, but also against the two women for “committing a prohibited act” by not wearing the hijab, reported today the website of the judiciary, Mizan Online.
“Necessary notices have been sent to the owner of the store in which it occurred so that it complies with legal and Sharia principles in accordance with the regulations” in force, it added.
This decision comes after the president of the Iranian Supreme Court, Gholamhosein Mohseni Ejei, said in an act that the judges must prosecute any incident that “occurs in public and disturbs the people of faith”, in a reference to the women who they do not wear the Islamic headscarf.
“The authorities are obliged to report these cases to the competent judicial authorities for them to decide and these judicial authorities must be equally diligent in handling these cases,” he added, according to US-Iranian Radio Farda.
In recent days, coinciding with the beginning of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, the news and arrests of women for not respecting Islamic rules on head coverings and also of men for not respecting the daytime fasting that Ramadan implies have multiplied.
“The courts will take charge with all their power of everything that threatens the psychological and physical security of the people and will avoid cases of non-compliance and distortion of public rights,” he stressed, according to the Europa Press agency.
At the same time, he said that any act in this sense “represents contempt” for the system of the Islamic Republic of Iran and its “values” and denounced that Iran’s “enemies” abroad are the ones who promote these crimes.
Iran has been engulfed in a wave of protests since September after the death of Mahsa Amini, a young Kurdish woman who died in police custody after being detained for not wearing the Islamic headscarf properly.
The repression of the demonstrations left hundreds dead and thousands of people were arrested. At the same time, they led several countries to impose sanctions against the Iranian government.
Last month, the UN special rapporteur on Iran called Iran’s human rights violations “the most serious” in the country in the past four decades, presenting a new report to the United Nations Human Rights Council. United in Geneva, Switzerland.
Since then, some women have been seen in the streets without the Islamic headscarf, especially in the Iranian capital.
In this context, President Ebrahim Raisi reiterated today that Iranian women must wear jihab due to “religious necessity” and “legal issue”, therefore complying with this precept is “mandatory”.
Source: Ambito
