According to Iran police statement, the force would “take action to identify norm-breaking people. By using tools and smart cameras in public places and thoroughfares”.
On Saturday, Iran police announced plans to utilize “smart” technology in public locations. Which is to identify and sanction women who breach the country’s strict Islamic dress code. In addition, police will “take action to identify norm-breaking people. With using tools and smart cameras in public places and thoroughfares,” according to a statement.
Police will send warnings
The police will send “proof and warning messages to hijab law violators”. To “inform them about the legal consequences of repeating this crime.”
Moreover, there is a surge in number of Iranian women breaking the mandatory dress code. In response to a wave of protests to the death in detention of Mahsa Amini, 22, for allegedly flouting it.
“People who remove their veil identified by smart equipment starting next Saturday.” Iran’s police head Ahmad-Reza Radan states in an interview with state television.
“People who remove their hijab in public places will get warning first and then they will take to court.”
According to him if any of their passengers breach the dress code, car owners will receive a text warning. And will impound their vehicles if the act repeats.
Amini died three days after being arrested by the morality police on September 16.
Following her death, a wave of civic unrest erupted across the Islamic republic.
Police says in a second statement on Saturday that they would not accept “any individual or collective behaviour and actions. Because they are contrary to the law.”
A viral video on social media last week shows a guy throwing yoghurt at two ladies for not wearing a hijab.
Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei, the president of the judiciary, states in late March that “removing hijab amounts to enmity towards values. In addition, people who commit such abnormality should get punishment.”
The obligation for women to wear headscarves in public was made legislation immediately after the 1979 Islamic revolution.