Iran has intensified its enforcement of mandatory hijab laws, leading to widespread condemnation and reports of violent crackdowns against women. The UN and various human rights groups have highlighted harrowing accounts of women being forcibly detained and assaulted by security forces. This crackdown coincides with Iran's escalating conflict with Israel, which has shifted some global attention away from domestic issues. Amidst this, the Iranian government has given police expanded powers to enforce conservative dress codes. Additionally, the UN has called on the Iranian government to eliminate gender-based discrimination and violence, and to overturn the death sentence against rapper Toomaj Salehi. One hundred political prisoners and activists have criticized the crackdown, calling it a 'hostile insistence on homogenizing people's lifestyles.'
The U.N. rights office reports "uniformed and plainclothes police in Iran are enforcing a violent crackdown throughout the country against women and girls under the country’s strict hijab laws – as well as men supporting them." https://t.co/nMeLgbxgWd https://t.co/K55bDXEOfQ
Iranian women are being sexually assaulted, tasered and beaten in a fresh morality police crackdown on those flouting Tehran’s strict dress codes https://t.co/SH8Z0VbwbI https://t.co/en2PIiLbxs
VIDEO: The UN denounces the increasing enforcement of Iran's strict hijab laws, with reports that "uniformed and plainclothes police are enforcing a violent crackdown" against women and girls. https://t.co/pYJoukPxmH
Executions of convicts, arrests of dissidents and a resurgence in patrols enforcing the obligatory wearing of hijabs: Iran is stepping up repression at home as tensions flare with its arch-foe Israel, activists say. https://t.co/I8YD0LIGxs
How about the morality police cracking down on women in Iran? https://t.co/Tj6z3JTUEz
#Iran: Worrying reports of a violent crackdown against women and girls under strict hijab laws. We urge the Government to act to eliminate gender-based discrimination and violence. We also call on authorities to overturn the death sentence against rapper Toomaj Salehi.
"With global attention focused on Iran’s escalating conflict with Israel, Tehran has intensified its domestic crackdown on women, giving police expanded powers to enforce conservative dress codes." https://t.co/5NwE39YWwh
With global attention focused on Iran’s escalating conflict with Israel, Tehran has intensified its domestic crackdown on women, giving police expanded powers to enforce conservative dress codes. Live updates here: https://t.co/OlllGpInBx
With global attention focused on Iran’s escalating conflict with Israel, Tehran has intensified its domestic crackdown on women, giving police expanded powers to enforce conservative dress codes. https://t.co/6HATHLeMy0
One hundred political prisoners and activists lambasted Iran’s latest crackdowns on mandatory hijab, branding it “hostile insistence on homogenizing people’s lifestyles.” https://t.co/QBJRtuhP4i
"Harrowing first-hand accounts of women being dragged from the streets of Iran and detained by security services have emerged as human rights groups say [the] country’s hijab rules have been brutally enforced since the country’s drone strikes on Israel." https://t.co/izI6md5xqy
Authorities in Iran have launched a fierce battle with Iranian women over the enforcement of mandatory hijab, a struggle that has reignited widespread condemnation of the government's heavy-handed tactics. https://t.co/NCG7W6KYqB