A woman at an Iranian university stripped down to her underwear in an apparent act of protest after university security forces reportedly violently stopped her for not wearing a headscarf.
Video of the incident on Saturday shows an undressed woman sitting by a staircase in an outdoor area of a branch of Tehran’s Islamic Azad University. It later shows the woman walking on the sidewalk and crossing the street before being surrounded by security forces and seemingly pushed into a car.
Not wearing a hijab is an offense punishable based on the Iranian regime’s Sharia-based law. The law is supervised by a task force known as the morality police, which patrols around cities. In universities, students are monitored for the mandatory hijab by security forces based inside colleges.
The woman was initially taken to a police station and then transferred to a psychiatric center, according to the Telegram channel for the Iranian newspaper Farhikhtegan. A spokesperson for the university said the “real motive” of the act is still under investigation, Farhikhtegan reported.
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