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New Delhi: Protest-hit Iran has abolished its morality police, the Prosecutor General said on Sunday, as reported by news agency AFP.
Iran has scrapped its morality police units after more than two months of protests triggered by the arrest of Mahsa Amini for allegedly violating the country’s strict female dress code, AFP reported citing local media.
This comes after the attorney general on Saturday said that the parliament and the judiciary are reviewing the decades-old hijab law which sparked the 3-month-long protests in the country. The demonstration, according to the United Nations, is believed to have claimed more than 300 lives so far.
The protests, which started in September this year, across the country were sparked by the death of 22-year-old Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini in the custody of morality police after being arrested for allegedly breaching the country’s strict dress code for women.
The furious Iranian protesters from all layers of society burned their head coverings, shouted anti-government slogans and tossed turbans off Muslim clerics’ heads to demonstrate their defiance, which is now seen as the biggest challenge to Iran’s leaders since the 1979 revolution.
Iran’s attorney general Mohammad Jafar Montazeri said, “Both parliament and the judiciary are working (on the issue)” of whether the law needs any changes, as quoted by news agency AFP.
The ISNA news agency reported that he did not specify what could be modified in the law by the two bodies, which are largely in the hands of conservatives.
The review team met on Wednesday with parliament’s cultural commission “and will see the results in a week or two”, the attorney general said.
In the meantime, a top state security organization said that 200 individuals, including security forces personnel, had died in the unrest, a figure much lower than that reported by the world body and rights organizations, as per news agency Reuters.
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