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Here the Iranian student undresses.
In protest against the moral police, activists at X.
Due to mental illness, according to the country’s authorities.
According to Iran’s mandatory dress code, women must wear veils in public and wear loose-fitting clothing that hides the contours of the body. Rules that the country’s morality police are tasked with ensuring that they are followed, writes the AFP news agency.
On X, a video is now being spread of a woman in underwear outside the Tehran Azad University of Science and Research in Iran who is then taken away by what is said to be the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
What happened to the woman afterwards is unknown, reports Reuters.
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full screen The Iranian woman undressed outside the university.
Films spread
According to human rights activists at X, the woman has been criticized for her dress by moral police on the university campus. In protest, she then took off all her clothes except her underwear in front of the university.
The incident was filmed and several videos that are now circulating show how the young woman is taken away, writes Reuters.
According to the Iranian news agency Fars, she was then said to have been beaten.
The university’s spokesperson Amir Mahjob writes on X that “at the police station … it was found that she was under severe psychological pressure and had a mental disorder”.
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full screen In pictures you can see how she walks around in her underwear.
“Will be left in a mental hospital”
The Iranian newspaper Hamshahri has reported that a source with transparency said that the woman “has serious mental problems and after investigations she will most likely be transferred to a mental hospital”.
In 2022, massive protests erupted in the country after 22-year-old Mahsa Amini was killed by the morality police for wearing her headscarf the wrong way. Many women went against the country’s laws and burned their shawls. At least 17 people were killed and hundreds injured during the protests.
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full screen Films are spread on how the woman is taken away.