How far would you go to claim your rights as a person?
This unknown woman was stopped by the Basij, more colloquially known, as the "Morality Police," for some infraction or another. Instead of meekly accepting the indignity, the woman went the morality police one better.
After being assaulted and having her clothes ripped, she stripped down to her underwear and paraded around on the street near Azad University.
This Iranian woman was harassed by morality police of lslamic regime and her clothes were torn for not wearing Hijab.
— Azat (@AzatAlsalim) November 2, 2024 "calmly
She took off her clothes in protest against oppression of women.
She was arrested and disappeared.pic.twitter.com/n9UbKKCMRO
“Morality” police at her university ripped up her clothes, so she took the rest off herself in civil disobedience. These Iranian women fight for a future of freedom, peace, and dignity for all the world. They knowingly risk torture, rape, execution.
— Mariam Memarsadeghi (@memarsadeghi) November 2, 2024
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It should be noted that the exact circumstances of this woman's arrest are unknown. The authorities say she has mental problems, and the Basij "calmly" talked to her, reminding her of the dress code.
Eyewitnesses report that Basij men ripped her offending headscarf and her clothes, and as an act of defiance, she stripped off the rest of her outer garments. Amnesty Iran says the woman's whereabouts are unknown.
Iran’s authorities must immediately & unconditionally release the university student who was violently arrested on 2 Nov after she removed her clothes in protest against abusive enforcement of compulsory veiling by security officials at Tehran's Islamic Azad University. 1/2 pic.twitter.com/lI1JXYsgtm
— Amnesty Iran (@AmnestyIran) November 2, 2024
The Basij were supposedly banned in late 2022 but have since made a comeback. They were taken off the streets following violent protests after the death of a young Kurdish woman in the custody of the Basij.
The woman is already being lionized on social media.
AFRAID OF INDEPENDENT WOMEN. IRAN!
— Freedom Movement Uganda (@FreedomMove_Ug) November 3, 2024
She exposed the gruesome & brutal Iranian regime against women freedom & lives. She protested her arrest for wearing an improper hijab by putting off her clothes. This courage can't go unnoticed. Shame upon the Iranian regime. #WomenLifeFreedom pic.twitter.com/f8c8pmD8yK
This is right out of the Soviet playbook.
The state-run newspaper Farhikhtegan and the state-run conservative Fars news agency reported the arrest, saying the woman had acted “inappropriately.”
In a report that included a photo of the woman that had been blurred, Fars said the student had "arrived inappropriately dressed for class. After receiving a warning from campus security about dress code regulations, she stripped off her clothes and walked around the university."
A spokesperson for the university, Seyed Amir Mahjob, said the student had been taken to a psychiatric hospital after she was detained and that an investigation into her motivations was underway.
What else could she be but crazy for not obeying the law against "immodesty"?
How many men does it take to arrest one, half-naked woman?
Brave Iranian woman strips down to her underwear in protest after she's verbally and physically abused by campus security for "inadequate" hijab.
— Dlvin .H 🦚 (@Dl5676) November 3, 2024
Iranian women are fed up with the hijab, the burqa and Islam. pic.twitter.com/x6BWotmHY6
It's not just young women who are taking their lives in their hands by taking off their hijab. Iranian women of all ages have joined the protest.
A woman old enough to remember freedom for women removes her hijab in #Iran. #Iranianwomen #WalkingUnveiled #IranProtests #مهسا_امینی #IranProtests #MahsaAmini #Mahsa_Amini #MahsaAminii pic.twitter.com/CHBSBP1XZo
— Anonymous (@YourAnonCentral) September 22, 2022
How far would you go to fight for your rights as a woman and a human being? Would you risk jail? Beatings? Death?
Even if this woman turns out to be mentally unstable, she could have been treated with care and dignity. Instead, the Basij beat her, tossed her in a van, and drove off with her.
No one has heard from her for three days.
