The announcement was made by Iran’s attorney general Mohammad Jafar Montazeri this Saturday 3 December during a speech in Qom: the morality police, the very one that arrested Mahsa Amini in September for discovering a lock of hair under his scarf, would have been abolished.
After two months of demonstrations, several hundred dead and thousands of people arrested and imprisoned, some of whom were sentenced to capital punishment, is the government reeling in and trying to make commitments to this people in search of freedom and democracy?
Is the end of the moral police enough for the Iranian people?
However, caution is advised. The dissolution of this unit dedicated to the surveillance and intimidation of women in the public space may seem like good news. The Gashte Ershad it was founded in 2006 by former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has promised to do so “spreading the culture of decorum and the hijab”.
However, following the resumption of the announcement by the Prosecutor General of Iran in international media, the information was not officially confirmed by the representatives of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
As pointed out journalist Ghazal Ghoshiri on Twitterthe abolition of the morality police has never been a demand of the protesters since the beginning of the mobilization: “They want profound changes, crystallized in the slogan: ‘Woman, life, freedom! “.
Journalist and activist, Masih Alinejab goes even further and speaks of Iranian state propaganda recovery without distance or verification:
“International news outlets need to learn that when dictatorships like the Islamic Republic are in trouble, they propagandize, as the regime did in 2017, as it does today. This is their modus operandi. »
He refers to a 2017 announcement by the Iranian police that women who violated the hijab law would no longer be taken to detention centres. In practice, the events of the last few weeks show that we are far from the mark.
The law on compulsory headscarves should also be changed, according to Mohammad Jafar Montazeri. It has been in force since 1983.
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Source: Madmoizelle
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