In Iran, women
are required to properly cover their heads. It is against law for a woman not
to wear hijab. The religious police are conferred with the responsibility of
enforcing the proper dressing of women, especially wearing of Hijab on their
heads.
The religious
police are given power to arrest any woman driving without covering head
properly. According to the CNN report, the law is so strict that women who
allow their hijabs “to slip could be admonished by the religious police”.
The President of
Iran, Mr. Hassan Rouhani won his re-election last year because of his pledge to
relax some laws that seem to discriminate against women. Mr. Rouhani pledged
that his government if re-elected would reform ‘many of the gender
discriminatory laws’.
Women and youths
are no longer taking it kindly with the government which rather than reforming
the laws as promised during the electoral campaign, is empowering the police to
enforce the discriminatory laws. There were several protests across Iran. In
Tehran, the capital of the country, women were seen removing their hijabs in
public “to protest Iran’s strict Islamic dress code in recent weeks”.
Iranian women
are calling for equal rights.
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