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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 565

morality police

Iranian climber Elnaz Rekabi competing during the women boulder finals of the Asian Championships of the IFSC in Seoul, South Korea. (Photo by Rhea KANG / INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF SPORT CLIMBING / AFP)
March 13, 2025, 5:46 pm
Climber leaves Iran after competing without hijab at height of protests
Elnaz Rekabi largely vanished from public view after declining to cover her hair at 2022 event overseas as demonstrations raged against the Islamic Republic’s dress code for women
By AFP
Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian gestures as he speaks to reporters during his press conference in Tehran on September 16, 2024. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)
September 16, 2024, 9:03 pm
Iran’s new president vows to ensure morality police don’t ‘bother’ women
Speaking on second anniversary of death of Mahsa Amini, Masoud Pezeshkian says controversial force ‘not supposed to confront’ women; also says Tehran does not want fight with US
By AFP and ToI Staff
A woman walks past a banner depicting launching missiles bearing the emblem of the Islamic Republic of Iran in central Tehran on April 15, 2024. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)
April 21, 2024, 2:01 pm
Iran morality police redouble crackdown on women amid tensions with Israel
Videos shared on social media purportedly show dreaded unit enforcing hijab rules deploying in force, sweeping women off the streets and into notorious vans
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Iranians protest the September death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini after she was detained by the morality police in Tehran, October 27, 2022. (Photo taken by an individual not employed by the Associated Press and obtained by the AP outside Iran, Middle East Images/AP)
March 8, 2024, 12:27 pm
UN accuses Iran of using ‘disproportionate’ violence during Mahsa Amini protests
Probe finds Islamic Republic committed extrajudicial killings, prisoners sexually assaulted during crackdown; says Amini died of trauma inflicted while in morality police custody
By Jon Gambrell
Illustrative: Women share an umbrella as they stand at Enghelab Square in Iran's capital Tehran on December 5, 2022. (Atta Kenare/AFP)
January 7, 2024, 4:33 pm
Woman in Iran receives 74 lashings for not covering hair, ‘violating public morals’
33-year-old Roya Heshmati accused by Tehran’s judiciary of having ‘encouraged permissiveness’ after violating mandatory dress code in public
By AFP and AP
Armita Garawand, 17, died in October after a disputed incident on the Tehran metro (Screenshot: Twitter, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
December 21, 2023, 4:00 pm
Iranian reporter gets 6 months for questioning official explanation of teen’s death
Sara Massoumi apparently charged after posting online about Armita Garawand, who died in October after disputed incident with Iranian morality police on Tehran metro
By AFP
In this image from surveillance video aired by Iranian state television, women pull 16-year-old Armita Geravand from a train car on the Tehran Metro in Tehran, Iran, October 1, 2023. (Iranian state television/ AP)
October 28, 2023, 11:19 am
Iranian teen allegedly attacked by morality police for not wearing a hijab dies
Armita Geravand’s death comes after her being in a coma for weeks and threatens to reignite popular anger, protests over Iran’s mandatory headscarf law for women
By Jon Gambrell
Screen capture from video purportedly showing 16-year-old Armita Garawand being carried unconscious from a metro train in Tehran, Iran, October 3, 2023. (X. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
October 5, 2023, 12:38 am
Western governments outraged after Iranian police assault said to leave girl in coma
US expresses ‘shock,’ German foreign minister says situation ‘intolerable,’ after incident on subway leaves 16-year-old Armita Garawand hospitalized
By Stuart Williams
Screen capture from video purportedly showing 16-year-old Armita Garawand being carried unconscious from a metro train in Tehran, Iran, October 3, 2023. (X. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
October 3, 2023, 8:13 pm
Iranian girl in coma after alleged assault on metro by morality police
Armita Garawand said to have run-in with modesty enforcers; no visitors permitted to see her, not even her family; officials say she fainted due to low blood pressure
By AFP and ToI Staff
Illustrative: Iranian women make their way along a sidewalk in downtown Tehran, Iran, April 26, 2016. (Vahid Salemi/AP)
July 24, 2023, 12:05 pm
Iran shutters e-commerce giant over photos of female employees without headscarves
In new crackdown, authorities shut down one office of Digikala online retailer, nearly a year after the morality police largely melted away in the face of widespread protests
By AP
In this file photo taken on July 23, 2007, an Iranian policewoman looks on from the back of a police vehicle before the start of a crackdown to enforce Islamic dress code in the capital Tehran. (Behrouz MEHRI/AFP)
July 16, 2023, 2:56 pm
Iran brings back ‘morality police,’ says women without headscarf will be detained
Police spokesman says enforcement officials will resume notifying and then detaining women not wearing hijab in public; actor arrested for video slamming move
By AP
A cleric walks in front of the Fatima Masumeh Shrine in Qom, Iran, February 7, 2023. (AP/Vahid Salemi)
February 21, 2023, 10:49 am
Even in Shiite heartland of Qom, Iranians quietly call for change
Though many support theocratic regime, mandatory hijab, some residents say anti-government protesters treated too harshly, women who flout dress code should be warned, not arrested
By AP
In this file photo taken on July 23, 2007, an Iranian policewoman looks on from the back of a police vehicle before the start of a crackdown to enforce Islamic dress code in the capital Tehran. (Behrouz MEHRI/AFP)
December 5, 2022, 3:30 pm
‘Too little too late’: Iranian activists brush off claims morality police abolished
Protest supporters call supposed disbandment of force a ‘PR move,’ say it doesn’t change oppressive dress code for women but simply marks switch in enforcement of law
By Stuart Williams
People burn an Iranian national flag during a demonstration denouncing the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini -- who died while in the custody of Iranian authorities -- by Iraqi and Iranian Kurds outside the UN offices in Arbil, the capital of Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region, on September 24, 2022. (Safin Hamed/AFP)
December 5, 2022, 1:16 am
Iranians in Iraq put little stock in move to dissolve morality police
Kurds who fled country say protesters don’t only want freedom from headscarf, but also abolishment of regime in Tehran, though views elsewhere mixed
By AFP
File - Iranians protest the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini after she was detained by the morality police, in Tehran, October 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Middle East Images, File)
December 4, 2022, 10:57 pm
Status of Iran’s controversial morality police unclear after ‘closure’ remark
Country’s chief prosecutor, Mohamed Jafar Montazeri, says force ‘had been closed,’ but state media hasn’t reported such a decision
By jack jeffery
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