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Iran’s Attorney General Mohammad Jafar Montazeri mentioned Thursday that Iran’s parliament and judiciary are reviewing the nation’s necessary hijab regulation, in line with pro-reform outlet Entekhab.
Montazeri was additionally quoted as saying Iran’s feared morality police had been “abolished” however Iranian state media strongly pushed again on these feedback, saying the inside ministry oversees the pressure, not the judiciary.
CNN is reaching out to the Ministry of Interior for remark.
The sporting of a hijab in public is presently necessary for ladies in Iran underneath strict Islamic regulation that’s enforced by the nation’s so-called morality police. The legal guidelines across the head protecting sparked a nationwide protest motion after the dying of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who died in police custody after being apprehended by the morality police allegedly for not sporting her hijab correctly.
Her dying on September 16 touched a nerve within the Islamic Republic, with distinguished public figures popping out in help of the motion, together with prime Iranian actor Taraneh Alidoosti.
The nation has been gripped by a wave of mass protests that have been first ignited by Amini’s dying and have since coalesced round a spread of grievances with the regime. Authorities have unleashed a lethal crackdown on demonstrators, with experiences of pressured detentions and bodily abuse getting used to focus on the nation’s Kurdish minority group.
In a latest CNN investigation, covert testimony revealed sexual violence in opposition to protesters, together with boys, in Iran’s detention facilities because the begin of the unrest.
On the hijab regulation, Montazeri mentioned, “We know you feel anguished when you witness [women] without a hijab in cities, do you think the officials are silent about it? As someone who is in the field of this issue, I say that both the parliament and the judiciary are working, for example, just yesterday we had a meeting with the cultural commission of the parliament, and you will see the results within the next week or two,” as quoted by ISNA, state-affiliated media.
But there isn’t any proof of what, if any, modifications might be forthcoming to the regulation, which got here into impact after the Islamic Revolution in 1979.
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In response to a reporter who requested if the nation’s morality police was being disbanded, Montazeri was quoted by an Iranian state media outlet as saying, “Morality police have nothing to do with the judiciary. It was abolished from the same place it was launched. Of course, the judiciary will continue to monitor society’s behavior.”
Arab-language Al-Alam state tv claimed international media have been depicting Montazeri’s feedback as “a retreat on the part of the Islamic Republic from its stance on hijab and religious morality as a result of the protests”, however that every one that might be understood from his feedback was that the morality police weren’t immediately associated to the judiciary.
“But no official of the Islamic Republic of Iran has said that the Guidance Patrol has been shut,” Al-Alam mentioned Sunday afternoon.
“Some foreign media have attempted to interpret these words by the prosecutor-general as the Islamic Republic retreating from the issue of Hijab and modesty and claim that it is due to the recent riots.”
The remarks have been uttered in Qom, thought-about a holy metropolis in Siha Islam.