President vows to cease morality police from 'disturbing' ladies | EUROtoday
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DTwo years after the demise of Mahsa Amini and the large protest motion that left a whole lot useless and led to the arrest of hundreds in Iran, President Massoud Pezeshkian says he’ll maintain considered one of his marketing campaign guarantees.
In his first press convention since his election in July, he promised to make sure that morality police not “disturb” ladies who don’t put on the obligatory veil in public. “The morality police are not supposed to confront (women), I will make sure they do not disturb (them),” he mentioned in Tehran on Monday.
The remarks come two years after the demise on September 16, 2022, of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurdish lady arrested by morality police for violating Iran's strict gown code for ladies. “Even the Attorney General said they had no right to confront” ladies, the president added.
A marketing campaign promise
In September 2022, whereas a member of the Iranian parliament, he strongly criticized the police for the demise in custody of the younger lady. During his election marketing campaign, he promised to take away from the streets the morality police answerable for monitoring the obligatory carrying of the veil for ladies.
The reformist president additionally mentioned his authorities was working to ease draconian restrictions on the web, together with on social media. Since the 2022 protests, Iran has blocked Instagram and WhatsApp, probably the most broadly used apps since blocking YouTube, Facebook, Telegram, Twitter and TikTok lately.
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