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‘Not enough’: Iran may be disbanding its ‘morality police’ but women are skeptical of the motive
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Iran’s attorney general, Mohammad Jafar Montazeri, announced over the weekend that the country will be moving forward with the decision to disband their “morality police,” which was tasked with enforcing strict Islamic dress code.
This move comes in the wake of a young woman named Mahsa Amini being detained and killed in September for breaking said dress code by refusing to wear a hijab in public.
Following the death of Amini, whose non-government first name was Jîna, which means “life” in Kurdish, protests broke out in and outside of the Middle East as others took up her position of doing away with oppressive dress codes for women and there’s suspicion that the disbanding of the morality police is nothing more than an attempt to quiet protestors, leaving Iranian women fearful of what’s to come once attentions are diverted.
“The morality police had nothing to do with the judiciary and have been shut down from where they were set up,” Montazeri said in his statement on the disbanding of morality police. As BBC‘s coverage highlights, “control of the force lies with the interior ministry.”
