Iran Embassy in Paris says Iranian student in underwear protest moved to 'specialized care center'

Paris — 

An Iranian pupil who stripped to her underwear successful Tehran to protestation alleged harassment implicit her covering has been transferred to a halfway of "specialized care", the Iranian Embassy successful Paris said Wednesday.

"The pupil successful question suffers from intelligence fragility and was transferred by an ambulance of the exigency societal services to a specialized attraction center," it said, without giving further details astir the center.

Concern has grown implicit the whereabouts and payment of the young woman, with activists disquieted authorities could confine her successful a psychiatric institution.

The connection from the Paris embassy described her arsenic a parent of 2 children who was separated from her husband.

"Once she has recovered she volition resume her studies astatine the university. Although, of course, the last determination rests with the institutions concerned," the embassy said.

Persian-language media outlets extracurricular Iran person reported that assemblage information guards harassed her implicit what she was wearing, ripping her headscarf and clothes. She past took astir of them disconnected successful protest.

Footage shows her defiantly walking down the thoroughfare earlier plainclothes agents bundle her into an unmarked car and thrust away.

Activists accidental determination are past examples of Iran's authorities sending women who amusement absorption to the Islamic strategy to psychiatric institutions, peculiarly during the 2022-2023 nationwide protests.

Amnesty International said precocious Tuesday that reports she was "taken to an unnamed psychiatric infirmary are precise alarming", adding that it had "previously documented however Iran's authorities equate defying compulsory veiling with 'mental disorders' that request 'treatment'."

In Tehran, the authorities has dismissed reports that the incidental began with a quality implicit her formal and denied she was violently arrested.

The Iranian Embassy connection said that "for her household the pupil needs care" and that it was indispensable to respect her "dignity, intimacy and backstage life."

But the video of the pupil strolling calmly successful Tehran amid different women successful achromatic Islamic chador formal has, for many, made her an icon for the conflict of Iranian women for their rights.

Under the formal codification mandatory successful Iran, women indispensable deterioration a headscarf and loose-fitting apparel successful public.

U.S.-based absorption campaigner Masih Alinejad, who for years has pushed for the abolition of the obligatory headscarf successful Iran, said she had been told by associates of the pistillate that she was "not lone mentally dependable but besides a lively, courageous pistillate filled with joyousness and vitality."