Amnesty International Report on “Distressing” Mandatory Hijab Conditions in Daily Life of Iranian Women

Amnesty International has issued a report addressing the problems Iranian women face in dealing with mandatory hijab and criminal treatment of women who remove their headscarves.

In this report, published Tuesday, June 7 on the human rights organization’s website, while recounting the role of mandatory hijab in the daily lives of Iranian women and girls, it has pointed to sometimes very violent confrontations by morality police officers with women who do not have complete hijab.

Amnesty International in this report has referenced the symbolic protest movement of Girls of Revolution Street against mandatory hijab in December 2017, noting that this movement gradually became widespread and even some men joined this protest action.

The report has recalled that the mandatory hijab protest movement prompted reactions from judicial and security institutions, and 48 people have been arrested in connection with it since then.

Amnesty International has also referenced the mass arrest of groups of women’s rights activists and defenders of those protesting mandatory hijab, including Nasrin Sotoudeh, Reza Khandan, Farhad Meysami and Yasaman Aryani, and the prison sentences against them.

The organization has concluded by asking everyone to share a message on Twitter in support of activists opposed to mandatory hijab of Iranian women, addressed to the Leader of the Islamic Republic, which states that mandatory hijab laws discriminate against women and women should be able to choose their own clothing without facing coercion.

Source: Voice of America