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The Iranian attorney general aims for the "abolition" of the morality police after months of social protests over the death of a young woman

2022-12-04T18:26:37.539Z


Mahsa Amini passed away after being arrested on charges of failing to properly cover her hair. State media, however, question whether the judiciary can put an end to these police.


By Mithil Aggarwal -

NBC News

Iran's attorney general announced on Saturday the "abolition" of what is known as

the morality police

, in response to months of unusual social protests across the country over the death of a woman, according to two semi-official news agencies, ISNA and ILNA.

Mohammad Jafar Montazeri made the announcement at a religious event, though he promised that the judiciary would continue to "supervise social behavior."

[However, official Iranian media

repudiated

the information, indicating that this security force depends on the Interior Ministry, not the judiciary, according to the CNN news network, which also indicated that Montazeri announced a revision of the law that

obliges women

to wear

hijab

.]

Protests in Tehran on September 21.

PA

Mahsa Amini

, a 22-year-old, died in a hospital three days after she was arrested in the Iranian capital Tehran by morality police in September, accused of failing to properly cover her hair with a

hijab

as demanded by

strict dress rules for

women

The police claimed that the young woman fell ill and fell into a coma, but her family said they saw how officers beat her, something the Iranian authorities deny.

After her death, young protesters took to the streets, tearing up their

hijabs

and other

symbols

of the Islamic republic.

The protests, led by women, leaked on social networks around the world to become a more general questioning against the lack of democracy in Iran and one of the biggest challenges to the religious regime since the 1979 revolution;

the authorities, however, blamed the protests on “

enemy agents

”.

General Amir Ali Hajizahed, a Revolutionary Guard commander, was mentioned on a website close to this paramilitary body stating that

more than 300 people

have been killed in the protests, including presumably members of the regime's security forces.

Human rights activists put

the protesters dead at 470

and more than 18,000 detained as of Saturday, a figure that could not be confirmed by NBC News.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken praised the "extraordinary courage" of Iranian women for "

standing

up and standing up for their rights."

Source: telemundo

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