Iran reviews mandatory hijab law

By Agence France-Presse

Dec 05, 2022 12:07 am

TEHRAN: Iran said Saturday it is reviewing a decades-old law that requires women to cover their heads, as it struggles to quell more than two months of protests linked to the dress code.

Protests have swept Iran since the September 16 death in custody of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian of Kurdish origin arrested by the morality police for allegedly flouting the sharia-based law.

AN ABUSED LAW In this file photo taken on Sept. 20, 2022, Iranian women shop at Tajrish bazaar in the capital Tehran. Iran's parliament and the judiciary are reviewing a law which requires women to cover their heads, and which triggered more than two months of deadly protests, the attorney general said on Saturday, December 3. AFP Photo

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