Iran is facing criticism for opening psychological treatment clinics for women who remove their hijab, a mandatory garment for women in the country. Human rights advocates see this as a tactic to silence dissent and punish women for their political views.
Iran is opening psychological treatment clinics for women who defy the regime’s mandatory hijab law, a move decried by human rights advocates as a way of institutionalizing and silencing women for their political views. Mehri Talebi Darestani, the head of the Tehran Headquarters for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, announced the initiative in November, claiming the clinics would offer “scientific and psychological treatment for hijab removal.
” The decision has drawn strong criticism from human rights advocates and Iranian women worldwide, who say it is the latest attempt to quash dissent in the Islamic republic. It is believed to have been triggered by Ahoo Daryaei, an Iranian student and mother of two, who took off her hijab and stripped down to her underwear on the steps of a Tehran university in November in protest of the country’s hijab law. A video that went viral on social media showed Ms. Daryaei being forcibly detained by plainclothes security police. Ms. Daryaei was held at a psychiatric facility before being released. A spokesperson for the university said she was under severe mental pressure and had a mental disorder. Marina Nemat, who was arrested in Iran in 1982 at 16 years old for her political views and came close to execution in Evin prison, said the regime is grandstanding with the clinics. “They’re putting on a show as if to say to the world, ‘Look, our country is free, but these women who strip down to their underwear in public are obviously unstable,’” she said from Canada, where she was eventually able to escape to. “They’re putting on a show for their own people, saying, ‘Don’t worry, we’ll take care of them: we’ll send them to a mental hospital or clinic to help them get better.’” Under Iranian law, it is mandatory for women and girls aged 9 and older to wear a hijab and those who don’t can be jailed for 10 to 60 day
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