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The video of the girl roaming naked in the university campus had gone viral.
The United Nations has expressed concern over the arrest of a girl for protesting against hijab in Iran's Azad University. UN Special Rapporteur Mao Sato shared a video of the incident on social media platform X and said that she would keep a close eye on the matter.
Human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Nargis Mohammadi, who was jailed for agitating for women's rights in Iran, issued a statement from jail saying that women pay the price of their protest. He described the girl who protested by taking off her clothes as a symbol of rebellion, anger and protest and demanded her release.
Amnesty Iran has also demanded the immediate release of the student and requested the authorities to ensure her safety. Amnesty said, “The young woman should be protected from torture and ill-treatment and be allowed access to her family and a lawyer.”
A case of a girl student roaming around naked in Iran's capital Tehran came to light. According to news agency AFP, this incident happened on Saturday at Azad University of Science and Research in Tehran. Here a university student had taken off her clothes in protest against sexual harassment.
Shortly after roaming naked, the Iranian police took the student into custody. The student was also beaten up while being taken into custody.
Celebrities in support of the girl After the video of this incident went viral on social media, the discussion against the strict laws imposed on women in Iran has intensified all over the world. The hashtag 'Science and Research Girl' is also going viral in support of the girl. This hashtag has become a symbol of solidarity for anti-hijab protesting women.
Famous personalities of Iran have also come out in support of this student. “We will not leave you alone,” actress Kataion Riahi wrote in the post. Social activist Hossein Ronaghi said in support of the girl, “The girl's courage is the spark that burns the roots of oppression.”
Police said- the woman is mentally ill According to media reports, this student's protest started after she was harassed by the moral police regarding the hijab policy. But the government says that the woman was mentally ill.
Islamic Azad University's PRO (Public Relations Officer) Amir Mahjoob said in a statement that the woman has been sent to the police station due to 'severe mental stress'. Subsequently, government media outlets released a video in which a man posing as the woman's husband claimed that the woman was a mother of two and suffering from mental health problems.
Iranian human rights advocates say that it has become a pattern of the government to send female protesters to hospitals by labeling them as mental patients. Instead of taking responsibility on itself, the government calls women crazy and imprisons them in mental asylums. Last year, Iranian psychology associations also publicly criticized the government over this pattern.
Claim- Student's hijab and clothes were pulled It is also being claimed in many media reports that the student was misbehaved by members of Basij Militia. Her hijab and clothes were pulled.
Actually, a strict dress code has been implemented in Iran regarding women's clothing. According to this, it is mandatory for women to wear hijab and loose clothes in public places. In such a situation, this step of the student is being seen as raising voice against the power of Iran.
On the other hand, Iran's state media Fars News Agency claimed that the student was not dressed properly. After this, when the security guards warned the student, the student took off her clothes. According to government media, the guards spoke peacefully.
The requirement to wear hijab came into effect after the Islamic Revolution of 1979.
Although hijab was made mandatory in Iran in 1979, on August 15, President Ebrahim Raisi signed an order and asked to strictly implement it as a dress code.
Before 1979, under the rule of Shah Pahlavi, Iran was quite liberal when it came to women's clothing.
