Compulsory hijab in Iran.. New evidence and implications reveal the involvement of the Mullah in the killing of Mahsa Amini

Anger over the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini on September 16 while in Iranian morality police custody for allegedly improperly wearing a headscarf has prompted thousands of Iranians to take to the streets to demand greater freedoms and women’s rights.

Iran’s protests, which are now in their seventh month against the Iranian regime, continue amidst chants of “women, life, freedom” and “death to the dictator” in gatherings. Students and women in the country have also called for the removal of the veil and its burning.

Fresh evidence and testimonies of Iranian girl’s death

Six months after Iranian morality police killed Mahsa Amini, an Iranian girl, new testimonies have emerged about Amini’s death, sparking outrage against the mullahs’ regime.

According to the Sunday Times, several Iranian women who were then detained by the morality police testified to being severely beaten and were arrested as they left a Tehran metro station with their brother and cousins, despite wearing a long coat and a black scarf over their hair. She rose up to a whisper, was caught and began beating her on the head by an officer.

They revealed that the girl began pleading with the police patrol to release her, confirming that she is from outside the city and came to visit relatives to allow her to leave. However, the officers from the vice police told her that she will be taken to a quick one-hour course, about the hijab and how to wear it.

“After her arrest, the women found a whisper that had been thrown to the ground.” Police called an ambulance to take the girl to the hospital in critical condition, while her family outside the center asked for her fate.”

“This came amid Iranian claims that the girl collapsed suddenly in detention, and she posted videos proving her, without indicating she had been severely beaten before.”

The veil stirs controversy and a reformist party calls for its abolition

According to Iran International, many women are now free from the hijab in public and are voicing their rejection of the mandatory hijab by defying the headscarf in public places, in restaurants, banks and parks where they could not even enter without a head covering.

To reassert control over women, the authorities have resorted to threats against women again, after a video of a scuffle between a pharmacist and a customer demanding her to wear a headscarf went viral recently. The authorities have ordered all pharmacists and pharmacy workers to wear the masked face mask.

An Iranian reformist party has called for an end to the compulsory hijab and laws legalizing child marriage and discrimination against women in education and work.

In a statement on the occasion of International Women’s Day, the Union Party strongly criticized many of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s discriminatory laws against women, including mandatory hijab laws, and called for their repeal or change.