Iran does not have ‘security’ view of female student who stripped in public

Iran’s authorities says the pistillate is receiving attraction astatine a installation aft archetypal being taken to a constabulary station.

Tehran, Iran – Iran is yet to record charges against a pistillate pupil who was arrested aft she removed her apparel astatine a university, a authorities spokeswoman said.

The young pistillate stripped to her underwear successful nationalist connected a field of the Islamic Azad University successful northwestern Tehran connected Saturday, successful an enactment perceived by quality rights advocates, Amnesty International and immoderate societal media users arsenic a protestation against Iran’s mandatory Islamic formal code.

She was detained by assemblage information and transported to a constabulary station.

An authoritative from the assemblage and immoderate section media characterised the pistillate arsenic suffering from intelligence illness.

Local media besides shared a clip that purported to amusement the erstwhile hubby of the young woman. The man, whose look was blurred out, could beryllium heard crying and saying she suffers from intelligence issues and is simply a parent of 2 children.

Al Jazeera could not independently verify the footage.

On Tuesday, Fatemeh Mohajerani, the archetypal pistillate spokesperson of an Iranian authorities since the 1979 Iranian revolution, told the reformist Ham-Mihan regular paper that the pistillate was taken from a constabulary presumption to a installation to person treatment.

“No judicial lawsuit has been opened for this student. The authorities has a societal presumption to this issue, alternatively than a information view. We volition effort to resoluteness the contented of this pupil arsenic an idiosyncratic who is facing a problem,” she said.

The authorities spokeswoman added that she tin instrumentality to the assemblage successful the aboriginal if it is decided that she is suffering from a intelligence issue. The concern is pending a determination by authorities, according to Mohajerani.

She said the crushed the assemblage was truthful speedy to denote that the pistillate had a intelligence unwellness was apt that they had a record connected her, aft a university-wide psychiatric valuation programme implemented astatine an earlier stage.

Narges Mohammadi, the jailed Iranian quality rights activistic who won the Nobel Peace Prize past year, said successful a connection that the woman’s determination was a amusement of “defiance” to a strategy that has oppressed women and their bodies.

Iran’s authorities indispensable instantly & unconditionally merchandise the assemblage pupil who was violently arrested connected 2 Nov aft she removed her apparel successful protestation against abusive enforcement of compulsory veiling by information officials astatine Tehran’s Islamic Azad University. 1/2 <ahref=”https://t.co/lI1JXYsgtm”>pic.twitter.com/lI1JXYsgtm

— Amnesty Iran (@AmnestyIran) November 2, 2024

Amnesty International described the enactment arsenic a “protest against abusive enforcement of compulsory hijab by information officials” astatine the university.

The organisation said she indispensable beryllium protected from immoderate imaginable ill-treatment, and allegations of a convulsive apprehension indispensable beryllium evaluated arsenic portion of an autarkic and impartial investigation.

The incidental comes arsenic the contented of mandatory hijab remains a hot-button subject successful Iran successful the aftermath of months of nationwide protests successful 2022 and 2023 that erupted aft the decease successful constabulary custody of Mahsa Amini.

The 22-year-old Kurdish pistillate was arrested successful Tehran for allegedly not afloat adhering to the strict formal codification that has been successful spot since soon aft the 1979 revolution. Hundreds were killed during the protests.

France, which had adopted much confrontational rhetoric towards the Iranian constitution during the protests than astir Western countries by calling them a “revolution”, said connected Tuesday that it was “closely following” the lawsuit of the student.

“I hail the courageousness of this young pistillate who demonstrated her absorption and turned herself into an icon for the women’s conflict successful Iran,” Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot told broadcaster France 2.