Dubai: Women violating the Islamic dress code will be punished, Iran’s Judiciary Chief Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei said on Monday according to the official IRNA news agency, reaffirming the law after months of unrest that brought a deadly security crackdown.
“Removing one’s hijab is equivalent to showing enmity to the Islamic Republic and its values. People who engage in such an abnormal act will be punished,” Ejei said.
“With the help of the judiciary and executive, authorities will use all available means to deal with the people who cooperate with the enemy and commit this sin that harms public order.”
The September 16th murder of Mahsa Amini, an Iranian Kurdish women, while she was in police custody for flouting the dress codes triggered widespread protests that presented one of the greatest challenges to theocratic since its inception in 1979.
In recent weeks, the unrest has been largely suppressed by a more severe crackdown on security forces.
(Reporting from Dubai Newsroom; Editing done by Toby Chopra, Mark Heinrich).
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