Iran’s police force announced on Saturday that they intend to utilize cutting-edge technology in public areas to spot and subsequently punish women who disobey the nation’s strict Islamic dress code.
Police would “take action to identify norm-breakers by using tools and smart cameras in public places and thoroughfares,” according to a statement.
The proof and warning messages will then be sent by the police to those who have broken the hijab ban, “informing them about the legal repercussions of repeating this crime.”
Since a wave of protests following the death in detention of Kurdish-Iranian Mahsa Amini, 22, for allegedly violating it, there has been an upsurge in the number of women in Iran who refuse to adhere to the mandatory dress code.
According to Iran’s police commander, Ahmad-Reza Radan, “people who remove their veil will be identified by using smart equipment starting next Saturday.”
People who take off their hijab in public places will first receive a warning before being brought before the courts, according to Radan.
If any of their passengers disobey the dress code, he added, car owners will also receive a text warning, and if the offense is repeated, their vehicles would be impounded.
Amini passed away on September 16, three days after the “morality police” had taken her into custody.
A wave of civil protests swept across the Islamic republic after her death.
Police stated they would not put up with “any individual or collective behavior and actions that are contrary to the law” in a separate statement on Saturday.
A man was shown last week in a social media video pouring yogurt at two women for not donning the hijab. Later, the two women were detained because they weren’t covering their heads.
Late in March, Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje’i, the president of the judiciary, declared that “removing the hijab amounts to enmity toward values and people who commit such abnormality will be punished.”
Soon after the Islamic revolution of 1979, the headscarf requirement for women in public was codified in law.
