Young woman in Iran walked in her underwear after allegedly being attacked for not wearing a hijab

A student at Azad University in Tehran, Iran, walked in her underwear as a demonstration against alleged harassment for not wearing a hijab by militiamen of the revolutionary guard, which enforces the strict dress code of Islamic law.

The Azad University of Tehran denied that the student who took off her clothes on campus was attacked for not wearing the Islamic veil, and pointed out that the young woman suffers from “mental disorder.”

“Investigations show that, due to his mental disorder, he began filming his classmates and his teacher, who objected.“, indicated in X the director of public relations of the Science and Research unit of the Azad University of Tehran, Amir Mahjob.

The official said that After being warned by students and university security, the young woman quickly moved to the courtyard and took off her clothes..

This is how Mahjob reacted to the video that went viral this Saturday, November 2, on social networks of a student who was walking around the university campus in her underwear, supposedly in protest of the aggression suffered by security personnel because she was not wearing the Islamic veil.

Iranian media, such as the Fars agency and the Hamshahri newspaper, also initially reported that the young woman took off her clothes because of the hijab issue. But the university official stated that, “Contrary to rumors and virtual fantasies, there was no confrontation between security and this student”.

According to the information, The student was forced into a security forces vehicle and taken to an unknown whereabouts, something that the university’s public relations director has also denied.. Mahjob explained that, after numerous calls for attention from security, the young woman gave up putting on her clothes, so she was taken to the police station.

“After the indecent act of one of the students, the university security intervened and handed her over to the police station. The reasons for the student’s action are being investigated,” the official concluded.

The Iranian authorities have been trying to reimpose the hijab for two years with punishments such as confiscation of vehicles or the return to the streets of the Morality Police, who arrest women who do not wear veils. Despite this, many Iranian women continue not to cover their hair as a gesture of disobedience and defiance before the Islamic Republic, after the death of the young Mahsa Amini in police custody, who was detained for supposedly not wearing her veil properly.

At the end of September, the Guardian Council – the body that vetoes legislation – gave its approval to a chastity and hijab bill, which toughens punishments for not wearing the veil, with up to five years in prison.

Parliament had already approved the rule, which must now be promulgated by the Iranian president, the reformist Masud Pezeshkian, who during the election campaign promised that he would relax the country’s strict dress code, something that has not happened.