{"id":109739,"date":"2023-04-02T07:54:20","date_gmt":"2023-04-02T12:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/?p=109739"},"modified":"2023-04-02T07:54:20","modified_gmt":"2023-04-02T12:54:20","slug":"irans-judiciary-chief-threatens-to-prosecute-without-mercy-unveiled-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/2023\/04\/02\/irans-judiciary-chief-threatens-to-prosecute-without-mercy-unveiled-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran’s Judiciary Chief Threatens to Prosecute ‘Without Mercy’ Unveiled Women"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"VOA \u2014 TEHRAN, IRAN \u2014 <\/span>Faced with an increasing number of women defying the compulsory dress code, Iran\u2019s judiciary chief has threatened to prosecute “without mercy” women who appear in public unveiled, Iranian media reported Saturday.<\/p>\n

Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei\u2019s warning comes on the heels of an Interior Ministry statement Thursday that reinforced the government\u2019s mandatory hijab law.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnveiling is tantamount to enmity with (our) values,\u201d Ejei was quoted as saying by several news sites. Those \u201cwho commit such anomalous acts will be punished\u201d and will be \u201cprosecuted without mercy,\u201d he said, without saying what the punishment entails.<\/p>\n

Ejei, Iran’s chief justice, said law enforcement officers were \u201cobliged to refer obvious crimes and any kind of abnormality that is against the religious law and occurs in public to judicial authorities.\u201d<\/p>\n

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FILE – Women attend a protest against the death of Mahsa Amini, a woman who died while in police custody in Iran, during a rally in Tel Aviv, Oct. 29, 2022.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

A growing number of Iranian women have been ditching their veils since the death of a 22-year-old Kurdish woman in the custody of the morality police last September. Mahsa Amini had been detained for allegedly violating the hijab rule.<\/p>\n

Government forces violently put down months of nationwide revolt unleashed by her death.<\/p>\n

Still, risking arrest for defying the obligatory dress code, women are widely seen unveiled in malls, restaurants, shops and streets around the country. Videos of unveiled women resisting the morality police have flooded social media.<\/p>\n

Under Iran’s Islamic Sharia law, imposed after the 1979 revolution, women are obliged to cover their hair and wear long, loose-fitting clothes to disguise their figures. Violators have faced public rebuke, fines or arrest.<\/p>\n

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Head-to-toe veiled Iranian women walk at the shrine of Saint Saleh in northern Tehran, April 6, 2021.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Describing the veil as \u201cone of the civilizational foundations of the Iranian nation\u201d and \u201cone of the practical principles of the Islamic Republic,\u201d the Interior Ministry statement Thursday said there would be no \u201cretreat or tolerance\u201d on the issue.<\/p>\n

It urged ordinary citizens to confront unveiled women. Such directives have in past decades emboldened hardliners to attack women without impunity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

VOA \u2014 TEHRAN, IRAN \u2014 Faced with an increasing number of women defying the compulsory dress code, Iran\u2019s judiciary chief has threatened to prosecute “without mercy” women who appear in public unveiled, Iranian media reported Saturday. Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei\u2019s warning comes on the heels of an Interior Ministry statement Thursday that reinforced the government\u2019s mandatory […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":109740,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["fa","en"],"languages":{"fa":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109739"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109742,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109739\/revisions\/109742"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}