The protest erupted again in Iran on Monday for the death of a young woman who had been captured by “Moral Police,” who enforced a tight clothing code. The authorities announced on Friday that Mahsa Amini, 22, died in a hospital after three days later coma after being arrested by the Tehran Morality Police during a visit to the capital on September 13.

In addition to the hijab rules, the police did not provide an explanation why Amini was detained, a report said by The New York Times. His mother told the Iranian news outlet that his daughter followed the rules and wore a long and loose robe. He claimed that Amini was arrested when he came out of the subway with his brother, even though there was a request that they were city visitors.

But the death caused a stir in the country on Monday to see demonstrations in Tehran, including in several universities, and in Mashhad, the second largest city in the country. The protesters lined up in Hijab Street, or “the way title,” in Central Tehran, condemned the Moral Police, according to the Isna news agency.

In the midst of Amin’s protest and accusations were beaten by the police, which resulted in his death, News18 dived deeper into this case and the long hijab controversy in Iran:

Government television on Friday broadcasts a short supervisory video showing a woman identified as Amini collapsed at the police station after a fight with a female police officer. Amjad Amini, the victim’s father, told Fars that he “did not accept what (the police) showed him”, with the reason that “the film has been cut”.

According to a statement issued by Iranian security forces, Amini suffered a heart attack at the detention center when receiving educational training on hijab rules. But his family denied this claim, claiming he was very healthy before his arrest.

The victim’s father also criticized “slow response” from emergency services, added: “I believe Mahsa was transferred to the hospital late.” Interior Minister Ahmad Vahidi said on Saturday that he had received a report that the emergency service had arrived “immediately” at the scene. “Mahsa seems to have previous physical problems and we have reports that he has undergone brain surgery at the age of five,” Vahidi said.

However, his father, “insisted that his daughter had no history of disease and in perfect health”, Fars reported.A photo and video of Amini became viral on social media, showing her unconscious in a hospital bed with a tube in her mouth and nose, blood flowed from her ears, and bruises around her eyes.

Some Iranian doctors said on Twitter that while they did not have access to their medical files, bleeding from his ears suggested that he had a concussion due to head injury.

Iranian rules about clothing

In the Islamic Republic, the Moral Police Unit imposes clothing codes that require women to wear the hijab in public. Tights, torn jeans, clothes that expose their knees, and brightly colored clothes are also prohibited.

History

According to a report by Brookings, the hijab in Muslim society is always very dependent on the geographical, socioeconomic, and historical context, and this problem has long been politicized in contemporary Iran.

In an effort to modernize his country and instill a sense of national identity, Pahlavi Shah first issued a decision that prohibited the hijab in 1936; He also mandated European -style hats for men, the report said. The decree was revoked a few years later, when Shah was forced to exile and his little son took over as the ruler. Mohammad Reza Pahlavi expanded his father’s secular attitude, pro-West, and as anti-government activism gained an attraction in the 1970s, many women consciously adopted the hijab or chador which included all as a real rejection of the monarchy.

Even at the beginning of the post-revolutionary era, the report explained, the country’s efforts to force and enforce the hijab to meet with fierce opposition. In the weeks after the death of the monarchy, instructions about the crush over women’s clothing triggered some post-revolutionary protests, attracting thousands of women to the streets in March 1979 to warn that the imposition of new leadership over the hijab threatened their rights. “There is no freedom in the dawn of freedom,” their slogan left.

The event triggered protests throughout the world. Masoumeh Ebtekar, Iran’s vice president for women’s affairs, also condemned violence. “How can this treatment be justified?” He asked on Twitter.

India also saw controversy around the hijab last year when in December last year, six students were prohibited from entering government schools in Udupi District because they were wearing hijab. When the controversy grows, students from a Mangaluru district college make a similar claim.

When the school imposed restrictions, more students in Karnataka spoke. Muslim students claim that their fundamental rights for education and religion are violated. The incident triggered a contra protest led by Hindu Fringe groups, and immediately a group of students and others were locked in a hostile dispute with those who protested the hijab prohibition.

In March this year, the Karnataka High Court rejected a number of petitions on Tuesday which challenged the government’s orders that prohibit the hijab (hijab) from being worn in state schools and universities. Hijab clothes are not “important religious practices” in Islam, the panel of three judges led by the Chairman of the Ritu Ritu Awasthi Court said, adding that students could not objection to reasonable restrictions” in the form of uniforms. The court strengthens the ‘inconvenient and significant command’ state ‘state from February 5, decides that it does not violate constitutional provisions.

The peak court yesterday heard an argument about a number of petitions challenging the decision of the Karnataka High Court refused to raise the prohibition of the veil in state educational institutions that had determined uniforms.

Emphasized that the hijab is the “identity of” Muslim, senior advocate Dushyant Dave told the Supreme Court that various ommonds and commission actions such as the controversy of the title of Karnataka showed “a pattern to marginalize the minority community”.

In Europe, the controversy for hijab and burka rotates around various headdresses worn by Muslim women. In some countries, wearing a hijab (the word noun that means “to cover up”) has triggered a political debate and calls for a partial or total prohibition in some or all circumstances. Some countries already have laws that prohibit the use of masks in public, which can be applied to facial veils.

Other countries are considering similar laws or have less strict prohibitions. Some only apply to clothes that cover the faces, such as Burqa, Boushiya, or Niqab; Others, like Khimar, a type of hijab, apply to any clothing with the symbolism of Isla

hijab must be an important feature of the post-revolutionary system, first by force and then legally. Today, every violation brought a small fine and a two -month prison sentence, the report stated.

Over the years, such incidents in Iran have been reported repeatedly, with some documented. According to a report by the BBC in May 2018, that in the Capital of Tehran alone, more than 35 protesters have been arrested since December 2017. Women who took part in anti-hijab protests face ten years in prison, according to that police.

A woman was won and slapped by a police officer of the female morality in Tehran in April 2018 because of her loose hijab, the BBC report said. The incident, though unusual, filmed and distributed on Instagram is still Alinejad. It was seen by more than 3 million people and received more than 30,000 comments.