UN experts noted that the victims include young children and women who, in turn, are targeted by the Morality Police to verify their use of the hijab.
Experts of the Human Rights Council of the ONU warned in their latest report of a increase in abuses of derechos and the persecution of civilians in Iran.
In the document, the members of the research group denounced that the Persian regime has intensified “efforts to restrict the rights of civilians, including young children”, con el objetivo de “crush dissent”To achieve this, they pointed out, the authorities resorted to “physical and psychological torture, and a wide range of serious violations of due process and fair trials”As well as “threats with firearms” and the use of “ropes around necks, as a form of psychological torture”.
This situation intensified after the protests that broke out in 2022, when the young Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini She was brutally murdered by the Moral Police for wearing the wrong hat. hijabThis episode encouraged society and dissident voices to speak out and protest for weeks both inside and outside the country.
These demonstrations were brutally suffocated by the authorities, who sought at all costs to restore order in the territory.
“By suppressing the nationwide protests of 2022, Iran's state authorities committed serious violations of human rights, some of which -according to the mission- constituted Crimes against humanity", the document added.
Likewise, as a consequence of this initiative that sought to challenge Islamic laws, the Persian regime intensified the persecution and surveillance of women, especially with regard to the use of the hijab, one of the greatest symbols of oppression in this sector.
“Two and a half years after the start of the protests in September 2022, women and girls in Iran They continue to suffer systematic discrimination, both in law and in practice, which permeates all aspects of their lives, particularly with regard to the enforcement of compulsory hijab,” the report noted.
To carry out this surveillance, the regime ordered the drone deployment, camera installation and implementation of with facial recognition in public places, to detect those who violate the dress code. In addition, it launched the Nazer Police mobile app, through which society can report women who do not wear their veil and even include key information for your arrest, such as the location, date, time, and license plate of the vehicle you are traveling in, if applicable.
Then, once they are caught breaking Islamic laws, women are subjected to all kinds of punishments. convictionsas the “criminal sanctions, fines, long prison sentences and in some cases the death penalty", added the UN Mission.
In fact, in mid-November it became known that the Persian regime had announced the creation of a “treatment clinic” in the country, where women who defy the norms would be sent.
There, according to Mehri Taleb Darestani, director of the Department for Women and Family, these people would receive “scientific and psychological treatment for healing”.
All these actions are completely far from the promises that the president Masud Pezeshkian had made during his campaign, in which he pledged to “avoid unfair treatment of girls and women on the streets” and work to eliminate discrimination and social injustices.
(With information from Europe Press)
Source: INFOBAE