Iran: After underwear protest – scholar in heart for “special treatments” | EUROtoday

People around the globe are anxious concerning the Iranian scholar who protested in opposition to gown codes in Iran’s capital Tehran sporting solely her underwear. Now it has turn into identified what occurred to the younger girl, who is claimed to be referred to as Ahoo Daryaei, after her – in line with the regime – “immoral” motion.

An Iranian scholar who briefly walked by way of the capital Tehran in her underwear to protest in opposition to the morality watchdog has apparently been taken to a middle for “special treatment”. The scholar suffered from “mental instability” and was taken to a specialised facility in an ambulance, the Iranian embassy in Paris stated.

The girl, who’s learning on the Islamic Asad University in Tehran, took off her garments on Saturday in protest in opposition to the Basij militia and walked throughout the campus and a avenue within the Iranian capital in her underwear. Videos of the protest unfold quickly on on-line networks. The younger girl’s identify is claimed to be Mahla Daryaei, different hashtags apparently use her nickname and confer with her as Ahoo Daryaei.

The video of the girl strolling calmly and erect by way of the town in her underwear whereas different passersby are clad in a black chador has made the coed a logo of the struggle for girls’s rights in Iran. There are quite a few photographs, picture collages and memes circulating on the Internet that present the younger girl in motion. In some European cities there have been additionally smaller solidarity actions, resembling in Paris, the place younger ladies additionally protested solely of their underwear.

Footage reveals the girl being forcibly put right into a automobile

Iranian Research Minister Hossein Simaei criticized the protest as “immoral.” The younger girl had violated the regulation along with her habits and her habits was not primarily based on Sharia regulation, he stated.

After the motion, Daryaei’s whereabouts had been initially unclear – activists feared that the authorities may commit her to a psychiatric establishment. Footage reveals the girl being forcibly put right into a automobile by males in civilian garments.

According to the embassy in Paris, Daryaei is claimed to be the mom of two kids and lives individually from her husband. “Once she recovers, she will resume her studies at the university,” the embassy stated. However, the ultimate determination rests with the college.

According to Persian-language overseas media, college safety personnel criticized the girl for her clothes and tore her headband. The girl then uncovered herself.

Islamic regulation in Iran imposes a strict gown code on ladies, requiring them to put on a headband and free, body-covering clothes.

According to the human rights group Amnesty International, the coed had taken off her garments to protest in opposition to “the abusive enforcement of the headscarf requirement by security officers.” She was then “violently arrested”.

Amnesty International described studies that the girl had been taken “to an undisclosed psychiatric hospital” as very alarming.

US-based opposition activist Masih Alinedjad, who has been campaigning for the abolition of the headband requirement in Iran for years, stated the coed was “not only mentally healthy, but also a lively, courageous woman full of cheerfulness and energy”.

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