{"id":37990,"date":"2023-09-20T16:43:03","date_gmt":"2023-09-20T16:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=37990"},"modified":"2023-09-20T16:43:07","modified_gmt":"2023-09-20T16:43:07","slug":"iran-approves-stricter-hijab-bill-targeting-those-who-mock-dress-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2023\/09\/20\/iran-approves-stricter-hijab-bill-targeting-those-who-mock-dress-code\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran approves stricter hijab bill targeting those who \u2018mock\u2019 dress code"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Iran\u2019s parliament has approved a controversial new bill under which women face up to 10 years in prison if they continue to defy the country\u2019s mandatory hijab rules.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As well as harsher penalties on women defying the strict dress code, the draft law also intends to identify those who \u201cpromote nudity [or] indecency\u201d or \u201cmock\u201d the rules in a virtual or non-virtual space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

UN human rights experts have described it as \u201ctantamount to gender apartheid\u201d with the intention of suppressing women into \u201ctotal submission\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBy approving this bill, the Islamic Republic\u2019s parliament has put a massive lock on the bodies of Iranian women. Iran was already an open prison for the women of Iran, but now they\u2019ve extended the brutality with which they will crack down on women by giving serious powers to those implementing it on the streets,\u201d said the Iranian human rights lawyer Hossein Raeesi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The judiciary\u2019s Mizan news agency reported that the \u201cbill to support the family by promoting the culture of chastity and hijab\u201d was put to vote with 152 in favour, 34 against and seven abstentions. It will apply for an initial three-year trial period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The bill will require final approval from Iran\u2019s Guardian Council, a powerful body that vets legislation and oversees elections. It comprises 12 men and is headed by a recently re-elected 97-year-old cleric, Ahmad Jannati, who has been its chair since 1988.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Repeated \u201cviolators\u201d of the strict dress code (those with more than four violations), and those who dress \u201cinappropriately\u201d will face up to 10 years in prison. The bill also specifies that women who wear \u201crevealing or tight clothing\u201d or show a part of their body \u201clower than the neck or higher than the ankles or higher than the forearms\u201d, will face tough punishments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The approval of the hijab bill comes four days after the first anniversary of the death in custody of Mahsa Amini, 22, who had been detained for allegedly wearing the Islamic headscarf incorrectly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A demonstration in London to mark the first anniversary of the death of Mahsa Amini, 16 September 2023. Photograph: Anadolu Agency\/Getty Images<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to human rights groups, security forces have detained dozens of protesters across the country this week, a year after hundreds were killed in protests after Amini\u2019s death on 16 September 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Shoraye Negahban (Iran\u2019s Guardian Council) approves anything that the supreme leader backs. So in this case, the parliament\u2019s approval of the bill sets it in stone,\u201d said Rana*, an Iranian protester from Tehran who was detained and interrogated by the \u201cmorality police\u201d in August.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cWe are not waiting for a seal of approval from the council because, on the ground, they\u2019ve already implemented the law. Women are being followed, harassed, detained and interrogated, like always.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Iran\u2019s parliament has approved a controversial new bill under which women face up to 10 years in prison if they continue to defy the country\u2019s mandatory hijab rules. As well as harsher penalties on women defying the strict dress code, the draft law also intends to identify those who \u201cpromote nudity [or] indecency\u201d or \u201cmock\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":26346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[11941,7927,7960,7823,3513,7234,2884,9387,10684,5455,5696,10840,13157,1759,5406,9515,10342,10776,3684,8006,12309,10685,1198,8874,421,8306,11171,5655,5470,12794,7444,11581,5465,5320,594],"class_list":["post-37990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","tag-bill","tag-brutality","tag-case","tag-code","tag-culture","tag-death","tag-demonstration","tag-detained","tag-dress-code","tag-family","tag-hijab","tag-human-rights","tag-islamic","tag-iran","tag-judiciary","tag-killed","tag-law","tag-lawyer","tag-london","tag-mahsa-amini","tag-men","tag-mock","tag-parliament","tag-penalties","tag-police","tag-prison","tag-protesters","tag-security","tag-space","tag-supreme-leader","tag-tehran","tag-trial","tag-un","tag-women","tag-who"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37993,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37990\/revisions\/37993"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}