Iranian media reviews dispute the legislation imposes fines identical to as a lot as 20 months’ moderate wage for females who improperly put on a hijab or forgo it altogether
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03 December, 2024, 05:55 pm
Remaining modified: 03 December, 2024, 05:57 pm
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has expressed doubts about new legislation imposing more sturdy penalties on females who flout crucial hijab regulations.
For the rationale that 1979 Islamic Revolution, females in Iran win been required to duvet their hair in public.
Nonetheless, increasing numbers are exhibiting with out hijabs, especially since protests erupted following Mahsa Amini’s loss of life in custody in September 2022. She had been arrested for allegedly violating the dress code.
Parliament has authorized the new “hijab and chastity” law, but it requires the president’s signature on December 13 to grab enact.
“As the person to blame for promulgating this law, I truly win many reservations about it,” Pezeshkian told impart television unhurried Monday.
The text has no longer been officially printed, but Iranian media reviews dispute the legislation imposes fines identical to as a lot as 20 months’ moderate wage for females who improperly put on a hijab or forgo it altogether in public or on social media.
Violators have to pay internal 10 days or face shuttle bans and restrictions on public products and companies, corresponding to acquiring driving licences.
“We possibility ruining loads of things in society thanks to this law,” said the Iranian president, adding that leaders have to steer obvious of actions that could alienate the general public.
The morality police, who arrested Amini before the protests, win largely vanished from the streets since then, though the unit has no longer been officially abolished.
Pezeshkian, who became president in July after campaigning to grab away the morality police, has but to articulate whether or no longer he’ll stamp the law.
