A female student in Iran, who was harassed by the university’s morality police for “wearing her headscarf inappropriately,” turned her body into a protest. The student, who stripped down to her underwear, was detained after the protest. Amnesty International wrote that the student was ill-treated while being detained. In a statement on the issue, the Iranian government claimed that the young woman was a “problematic individual” who was receiving treatment. Human rights advocates have drawn attention to Iranian authorities’ habit of labeling female protesters as mentally ill and sending them to psychiatric facilities.
On Monday, the semi-official, hard-line Tasnim news agency said the outcry on social media was “the same anti-Iran movement that emerged in 2022 in the Mahsa Amini incident”.
