Tehran:
Iran’s judiciary stated Tuesday it has not issued an indictment towards a pupil who stripped off to her underwear at a college in Tehran.
“Contemplating that she was despatched to the hospital, and it was discovered that she was ailing, she was handed over to her household… and no judicial case has been filed towards her,” judiciary spokesman Asghar Jahangir informed a information convention, with out naming her.
Earlier in November, footage of a feminine pupil circulated on-line, displaying her sitting and briefly strolling at Islamic Azad College in Tehran earlier than stripping right down to her underwear.
The transfer sparked harsh reactions from officers in Iran, the place overlaying the neck and head and dressing modestly turned necessary for girls following the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
The Iranian embassy in Paris stated in assertion afterwards that preliminary indications confirmed the “pupil was affected by household issues and a fragile psychological situation”.
“Indicators of irregular behaviour had already been noticed by these near her, together with relations and college students in her yr,” it stated.
‘Prostitution‘
Science Minister Hossein Simaei, who oversees universities, described the scholar’s act as “immoral and uncustomary”, whereas including that she had not been expelled from her college.
“Those that republished this footage unfold prostitution,” stated Simaei, including such incidents “shouldn’t be inspired as they’re neither morally nor religiously justified.”
London-based human rights group Amnesty Worldwide stated the girl was “violently arrested after she eliminated her garments in protest towards abusive enforcement of obligatory veiling by safety officers.”
Iranian authorities spokeswoman Fatemeh Mohajerani denied each the violent nature of her arrest and any connection of the incident to the Islamic costume code.
“The difficulty was truly one thing else,” she stated, noting that “this stage of nudity shouldn’t be accepted anyplace.”
The college stated later that the scholar concerned had been handed over to the police and located to be “below extreme stress and affected by a psychological dysfunction”.
Months-long nationwide protests shook Iran following the September 2022 loss of life in custody of 22-year-old Iranian Kurd Mahsa Amini over an alleged violation the costume code for girls.
Lots of of individuals, together with dozens of safety personnel, had been killed within the unrest and hundreds of demonstrators had been arrested.
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