Iran: Morality Police closed

The public prosecutor said in a statement carried by the country’s state media Mohammad Jaafar Montazeri Pointing out that the morality police “has nothing to do with the judiciary” and that it has been closed.

As the ISNA news agency says, Montazeri was at a religious meeting where an onlooker asked him why the morality police had been disbanded.

The Public Prosecutor said a few days ago that the law on wearing the headscarf should be “reviewed”. It was introduced in 1983, four years after the Islamic Revolution. At that time the prescribed punishment was flogging, but later it could also be sentenced to imprisonment.

Speaking of “flexibility”

Conservative President of Iran Ibrahim Raisi Saturday ruled that core Islamic values ​​form the framework of the country’s constitution.

Raisi added that there are ways to implement the constitution in flexible ways.

The morality police was established in 2005 under the Presidency of the Republic Mahmoud Ahmadinejad The following year they began running public patrols. It is under the authority of the National Police and, according to its official name, is supposed to provide “guidance”. To assist her, I gained access to weapons and the special facilities in which those arrested for religious indoctrination were held.

These police officers worked primarily to ensure that women complied with the law on wearing headscarves in public, but also to ensure that people in general lived virtuous lives considered within the conservative religious framework.

Caught and died

The massive protests took place in Iran when he was 22 years old Mahsa Zeina Amini She died in custody after being taken away by the notorious morality police, who objected to the way she wore the veil. According to reports, she was so beaten that she fell into a coma and was taken to hospital, where she later died.

Several hundred people have been killed in connection with the protests. Monitors, often based outside Iran, estimate that nearly 450 people have died. UN Human Rights Coordinator Volker Türk said earlier that Iranian security forces have arrested more than 14,000 people in connection with the protests.

During the fall, the European Union and the United States of America issued sanctions against senior representatives of the morality police.