Iran sues newspaper for publishing morality guard documents – DW – 11/26/2023
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The reformist newspaper Etemad published a secret document linking the Iranian government to volunteer morality guards. Among their other duties, the guards are tasked with enforcing the mandatory hijab for women.
  • AutoTL;DRBEnglish
    2•1 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    The Iranian public prosecutor’s office has brought charges against a prominent newspaper for publishing a top-secret government document about the country’s volunteer morality guards.

    The judiciary’s Mizan news portal said on Sunday that Etemad, a reformist daily newspaper, had published the contents of a “highly confidential” document.

    The document was an instruction from the Interior Ministry regarding the deployment of thousands of morality guards in public places to enforce the country’s strict Islamic dress code for women.

    The volunteer morality guards sparked backlash last month after the death of 16-year-old Armita Geravand.

    Geravand was hospitalized and fell into a coma in after she reportedly had a confrontation with morality guards on the Tehran Metro for not wearing a hijab.

    The incident prompted comparisons with the death of Jina Mahsa Amini, a Kurdish woman who died in the custody of the morality police in 2022.

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  • burchalkaEnglish
    1•1 year ago

    This just few weeks after UN puts Iran to chair Human Rights Council Social Forum