Khorasan Razavi Prosecutor's Office: We have not banned women from cycling

The Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor of the capital of Khorasan Razavi Province denied issuing a judicial order to ban women from using bicycles in the holy city of Mashhad.

According to Tasnim News Agency, following the publication of "content in cyberspace regarding the ban on women using bicycles" in Mashhad by court order, Mohammad Hossein Daroudi, the Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor of the Central Khorasan Razavi Province, denied the matter and said, "The Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor of the Central Khorasan Razavi Province has not issued any court order in this regard."

His comments come after Mehdi Roozbehaneh, head of the Khorasan Razavi Province Cycling Board, announced on August 4 that women would be banned from cycling in public places.

In late June of this year, when a ban on women cycling was announced in the city of Torqaba Shandiz in this province, Hadi Sobhani, the city's prosecutor, said that the ban was implemented based on "the approval of the Headquarters for Encouraging Good and Forbidding Evil."

Ahmad Alam-ul-Huda, the Friday prayer leader of Mashhad, also opposed women cycling in public places on July 1st of this year, saying that women should ride bicycles in places "away from the gaze of men."

He emphasized that if women ride bicycles in public places like universities, they will ignite the "sexual instincts of youth" and the university will become a "hotbed of corruption."

The issue of women's cycling has been a topic of discussion in the Iranian public and media for more than 20 years, and due to the stubborn opposition of religious and government institutions, it has always been accompanied by controversy and controversy.

Source: Radio Farda