Iran uses facial recognition technology to suppress women; details
The Iranian authorities are moving to toughen their stance towards women’s clothing. The government is ignoring campaigns to lift restrictions on women and to suspend the strict laws relating to clothing and the veil. However, the government’s response came from an Iranian official who confirmed that the government is determined to use facial recognition technology in public transportation to identify women who refuse to wear the hijab.
Suppression technology
Mohammad Saleh Hashemi Gulbaikani, secretary of the Office for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, said: Authorities are planning to use sophisticated technology to censor women to implement a new law recently passed by the country’s president, Ebrahim Raisi, which sets out the conditions for women’s clothing. Azadeh Akbari, a researcher at the University of Twente in the Netherlands, explained that since 2015, the Iranian government has been gradually working on biometric identity cards, which include a chip that stores data on iris, fingerprints and face images. “The government has full access to all faces. Officials know everything about citizens, they can easily find them, etc. I confirmed that anyone
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Arresting women
It is worth noting that Raisi’s law was signed on August 15, and caused a wave of women’s protests in the country, where many Iranian women used to publish their pictures without a veil in public places, while the authorities responded to this objection with a wide campaign of arrests. It is worth mentioning that the security arrested more than 300 people of activists against the mandatory wearing of the veil in Iran, according to the official Ali Khan Mohammadi, more than 35 women are currently in Iranian prisons because of taking off the veil in symbolic protests organized recently, in 2014 alone, warned 3.4 million women or were fined because they did not comply with the dress standards imposed by the Iranian regime.
Suppression of an entire society
Jafari Dolatabadi, Tehran’s chief prosecutor, announced that a court had sentenced a girl to two years in prison for taking off her hijab in the capital in protest against the mandatory hijab. Dolatabadi stated that the court convicted the unnamed girl of “spreading corruption by publicly taking off her hijab”, while Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei accused Iran’s enemies last Thursday of financing the anti-hijab protests. “As a result, some girls were deceived and their hijab was taken off here and there, but this is a small issue, and what I find troubling is that some elites are now skeptical about the imposition of the veil. Perhaps this is what indicates the fear of the authority, and its intention to continue to suppress it, since it decided to silence its ears from demands that these women consider right. Masih Ali Najad said nothing would happen to them, considering that those courageous women will not back despite the great dangers they are exposed to, and considering that there is no choice but to listen to those demands, especially in Iran, especially that the society, it has begun to listen to those demands: The regime cannot continue to suppress an entire society, one that is more aware of women’s rights.
