Its principles Iran they set up cameras in public places to identify and punish women who do not scarfThe police announced yesterday, Saturday.

Once identified, those who violate the dress code will receive “text messages warning of consequences,” the police said in a statement.

The move is aimed at “preventing resistance to the hijab law,” the police added in a statement released by the judiciary-linked Mizan news agency and other state news outlets, noting that this kind of resistance casts a shadow on Iran’s spiritual image. and creates uncertainty.

More women in Iran are refusing to wear the hijab since the death in September of 22-year-old Iranian-Kurdish Mahshi Amini after she was arrested by the vice police for violating the rules of wearing the hijab. The security forces brutally cracked down on protests after her death.

However, despite the risk of arrest for violating the mandatory dress code, women are still often seen without headscarves in malls, restaurants, shops and on the streets of the country, and videos of women walking around without hijabs and challenging the vice police have flooded social networks. .

^{Source: APE-MEB, Reuters}