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Iran’s police announced on Saturday that they intend to employ “smart” technology in public areas to detect and then punish women who disobey the strict Islamic dress code of the nation.
The force would “take action to identify norm-breakers by using tools and smart cameras in public places and thoroughfares,” according to a statement.
Then, in order to “inform them about the legal consequences of repeating this crime,” police would send “the proof and warning messages to the violators of the hijab law.”
Since a wave of protests following the death in detention of Kurdish-Iranian Mahsa Amini, 22, for allegedly violating it, there have been more women in Iran who choose to disregard the mandatory dress code.
Iran’s police head, Ahmad-Reza Radan, warned in an interview with state television that “from next Saturday, people who remove their veil will be identified by using smart equipment.”
“People who take off their hijab in public places will first receive a warning and then be presented to the courts,” Radan stated.
According to him, car owners will also get an SMS warning if any of their passengers don’t follow the dress code, and if the infraction is repeated, their vehicles will be impounded.
Three days after being detained by the morality police, Amini passed away on September 16.
Following her passing, a tidal wave of civil unrest engulfed the Islamic republic.
Police issued a separate statement on Saturday in which they declared they would not put up with “any individual or group behaviour and actions that are contrary to the law.”
A man was seen throwing yoghurt at two women in a social media video that went viral last week because they weren’t wearing hijabs.
According to Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei, the head of the judiciary, removing the hijab “amounts to enmity towards values, and people who commit such abnormality will be punished,” this is what he said in late March.
Soon after the Islamic revolution of 1979, the rule that women cover their heads in public was codified in law.
