Iran installs cameras to find women not wearing hijab

Iranian authorities person begun installing cameras successful nationalist places to place unveiled women, the constabulary person announced.

Identified women volition person a substance astir the consequences of not covering their hairsbreadth with a hijab, constabulary said.

This would assistance forestall "resistance against the hijab law", constabulary said.

Protests were sparked past twelvemonth by the decease successful constabulary custody of Mahsa Amini, a young Kurdish pistillate arrested for allegedly violating the hijab rule.

Since Ms Amini's decease a increasing fig of women person been discarding their veils, peculiarly successful larger cities, contempt the hazard of arrest.

A constabulary connection published by the state-run Islamic Republic News Agency said the strategy utilized alleged "smart" cameras and different tools to place and nonstop "documents and informing messages to the violators of the hijab law".

Women person been legally required to screen their hairsbreadth with a hijab (headscarf) since the 1979 Islamic Revolution installed a strict mentation of spiritual law. Women who interruption the instrumentality look fines oregon arrest.

Saturday's constabulary connection described the veil arsenic "one of the civilizational foundations of the Iranian nation" and urged concern owners to uphold the rules done "diligent inspections".

Public attacks connected unveiled women are not uncommon.

Last week, a video of a antheral throwing yoghurt astatine 2 unveiled women was wide disseminated online and the women were subsequently arrested nether the hijab law. The antheral was besides arrested.

Thousands of protesters successful Iran person been arrested and 4 person been executed since December, but hardliners person continued to importune that much beryllium done to enforce the law.

Last Saturday, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi reiterated that Iranian women indispensable deterioration the hijab arsenic a "religious necessity".

Iran's judiciary main Gholamhossein Mohseni-Ejei, however, warned connected Friday that a wide crackdown whitethorn not beryllium the champion mode to promote women to travel the rules.

"Cultural problems indispensable beryllium resolved by taste means... If we privation to lick specified problems by arresting and imprisoning, the costs volition summation and we volition not spot the desired effectiveness," helium said.