Iran says student in underwear protest moved to ‘specialized care center’

An Iranian student protests against harassment by stripping to her underwear outside her university in Tehran, November 2, 2024. (Video screenshot)
An Iranian student protests against harassment by stripping to her underwear outside her university in Tehran, November 2, 2024. (Video screenshot)

An Iranian student who stripped to her underwear in Tehran in protest at alleged harassment over her clothing was transferred to a center of “specialized care,” Iran’s embassy to Paris says.

“The student in question suffers from psychological fragility and was transferred by an ambulance of the emergency social services to a specialized care center,” it says in a statement, without giving further details on the nature of the center.

Concern has grown over the whereabouts and welfare of the young woman, with activists worried authorities could confine her in a psychiatric institution.

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