Man pours yoghurt on unveiled Iranian women, women arrested

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : Demonstrations have been ongoing in Iran for years, in the past prompted by rigged elections to oust moderate candidates.
44% : He earlier threatened to prosecute 'without mercy' women who appear in public unveiledWhile many women choose to wear or nor to wear the hijab across the Muslim world, it has been a legal requirement to wear the veil in Iran since the Islamic Revolution of 1979.
41% : Iran experiences much censorship with social media channels blocked and media largely controlled by the state.
38% : The shopkeeper intervened and threw the attacker out, only to receive a warning himself for allowing the unveiled women to be in his storeREAD MORE: Boys and girls as young as 12 'are being raped, flogged and given electric shocks while held for taking part in protests against morality police in Iran'
38% : She fell into a coma after her arrest and died in suspicious circumstances in hospital in Tehran on 16 September 2022.

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