Jan 11, 2023
On Tuesday, January 10th, the Deputy Attorney General announced in a note published by the Iran Students News Agency (ISNA) that the police have been ordered to deal decisively with the removal of the hijab throughout the country through a directive issued by the Attorney General's Office.
According to this note, the judicial system of the Islamic Republic will from now on condemn women who remove the headscarf to one or more of the following: Exile, prohibition from employment, dismissal from government and public services, prohibition from leaving the country, obligation to perform free public services, prohibition of membership in political and social parties and groups, confiscation of personal belongings and the requirement to learn a specific profession.
These are the cases that can be seen in the sentences issued for some women arrested in the recent uprising.
This is despite the fact that not long ago, some international media outlets, in a hasty action and wrongly inferring from the words of a regime official, announced the disbanding of the so-called “Morality Police” following the protests.
Mandatory hijab has always been one of the main pillars of the Islamic regime in Iran, and in more than four decades, there has never been the slightest flexibility to remove this law.
Unofficial Terrorists
While Iranians inside and outside of the country have repeatedly insisted on declaring the IRGC as a terrorist organization by European governments, this has not happened yet.
Meanwhile, the Commander-in-Chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Hossein Salami, said in response to the publication of Khamenei cartoons by Charlie Hebdo magazine, “Muslims will take revenge sooner or later. You may arrest the avengers, but the dead will never come back [to life].”
The Murder of Another Student
According to the students union council, Ghazaal Amiri, a dental student at Shiraz University, was hit with a baton during the protests and did not go to the hospital for fear of arrest. The next morning, her condition worsened and she was taken to the hospital by her fellow dormitories, but she died that night.
The channel of Iran's students' union councils does not independently confirm or deny the way she was killed.
According to Hengaw human rights organization, since October 10th, the intelligence forces of IRGC have detained a 16-year-old boy named Ehsan Mohammadi from the Kurdish city of Oshnavieh for 90 days. This has caused his family deep concerns about his health. This child has been denied access to a designated lawyer and basic rights, including face-to-face visits, during the entire period of detention, interrogation, and imprisonment.