“Hijab is never a choice and the return of morality police to Iranian streets once again proves it”, First Post, July 18, 2023:

“Law-aspirant Mahsa Amini was just 22-year-old when she was arrested and beaten up mercilessly by the Iranian police for not wearing hijab, a mandatory head scarf as per the Iranian law properly.

Her frail young body couldn’t deal with the brutality that was unleashed on her and as a result, she succumbed to the injuries and passed away shortly after that. Her death sparked another round of protests in the history of Iran since its fall to a theocratic Islamic regime in 1979 when angry people erupted in the streets to protest against hijab as a compulsory part of women’s attire.

In response, the Iranian government not only launched a violent campaign to crackdown on the protestors but it also termed them as ‘foreign agents’ and ‘rioters’. After hundreds of people lost their lives due to police counteraction and the Iranian government gave a clean chit to Amini’s murderers by declaring her death as a consequence of a pre-existing disease, moral policing is back in Iran this week. Once again, the anti-hijab activists have lost and the tyranny of Islamic hardliners has won…..”

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