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Iran's Morality Police Target One Million Women for Not Wearing Headscarves


(Telegraph-UK) Harriet Barber - Iran is deploying CCTV tracking to crack down on women who defy compulsory veiling. Between April and June, Iranian police sent more than one million text warnings to women seen on camera without a headscarf in their cars, Amnesty International said. Police issued 133,174 texts ordering women to stop using their vehicles, confiscated 2,000 cars, and referred more than 4,000 "repeat offenders" to the judiciary.
2023-07-27 00:00:00
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