After months of trying to suppress widespread anti-government protests triggered by the brutal killing of 22 year-old Mahsa Amini by the Islamic religious police for not wearing a headscarf, Iran has reportedly scrapped its controversial morality police. The interior ministry - which is in charge of the morality police - is yet to confirm, though the attorney general has said, "Morality police has nothing to do with the judiciary and has been abolished".
Also, there's no indication as to whether the law mandating every woman to wear a headscarf /hijab would
be changed. Women protests - labelled 'riots' by the authorities, have swept Iran since the young Iranian woman died in custody on 16 Sep, three days after she was publicly assaulted and picked up by the morality police in Teheran.
Angered by her death, a growing number of women have been openly defying the hijab mandate and burning the headscarves to mark their protest against the brutal enforcement of the law.
The ban of the morality police marks a major concession to the protesters by the Islamic regime.
Though hijab became mandatory in Iran in 1983, it was years later, in 2006, that the morality police began strictly enforcing the Islamic dress code.
Courtesy. ENS
My take
When will the 'hijab lovers' of India take the cue from their brethren in Iran?
Tailpiece.
Got up at a quarter past 6, the chores and was ready by a quarter to10.
Did my usual work.
Subjected to frequent power interruptions.
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