Iran’s judiciary said Tuesday it has not issued an indictment against a student who removed her underwear at a Tehran university.
Judiciary spokesman Asghar Jahangir told a press conference, “Keeping in mind that she was sent to the hospital, and it was found that she was ill, she was handed over to her family… and there will be no judicial case against her.” Has not been recorded.” Naming it.
Earlier in November, footage of a student circulated online, showing her sitting and briefly walking around at the Islamic Azad University in Tehran before stripping down to her underwear.
The move drew a sharp reaction from authorities in Iran, where it became mandatory for women to cover the neck and head and wear modest clothing after the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
The Iranian Embassy in Paris later said in statement that initial indications showed that “the student was suffering from family problems and a delicate psychological state”.
“Signs of abnormal behavior had already been observed in people close to him, including family members and students in his year,” it said.
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Science Minister Hossein Simai, who oversees universities, described the student’s actions as “immoral and unnatural”, adding that he had not been expelled from his university.
“Those who republished this footage spread prostitution,” Simai said. He said such incidents “should not be encouraged as they are neither morally nor religiously justified.”
Amnesty International, a London-based human rights group, said the woman was “violently arrested by security officers after taking off her clothes in protest against the humiliating implementation of the mandatory purdah practice.”
Iranian government spokeswoman Fatemeh Mohajerani denied the violent nature of their arrest and any connection to the Islamic dress code of the incident.
“It was actually something else,” he said, adding, “This level of nudity is not accepted anywhere.”
The university later said that the student concerned was handed over to the police and was found to be “under severe pressure and suffering from a mental disorder”.
Months of nationwide protests rocked Iran following the death in custody in September 2022 of 22-year-old Iranian Kurd Mahsa Amini over alleged violations of the dress code for women.
Hundreds of people, including dozens of security personnel, were killed in the unrest and thousands of protesters were arrested.
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