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Iran disbands 'morality police' amid two and half months of nationwide protests
By Euronews with AFP
Updated: 04/12/2022
https://www.euronews.com/2022/12/04/...nwide-protests

Iran’s Attorney General Mohammad Jafar Montazeri announced the abolition of the country’s morality police by the relevant authorities, Isna news agency reported Sunday.

"The morality police has nothing to do with the judiciary, and it has been abolished by those who created it," he said Saturday night in the holy city of Qom.

President Ebrahim Raisi said in televised comments Saturday that Iran's republican and Islamic foundations were constitutionally entrenched "but there are methods of implementing the constitution that can be flexible". (sic - media too important to follow rules of punctuation in their END PRODUCT)

Iran protests: What caused them? Are they different this time? Will the regime fall?
On September 13, 22-year-old Mahsa Amini was arrested for allegedly flouting the country's strict dress code. Three days later, she died in hospital - sparking violent protests across the country that show little sign of respite.

To date, more than 440 people have died due to the unrest - according to NGO Iran Human Rights - and some 14,000 people have been arrested.

The morality police, known as the Gasht-e Ershad (guidance patrols), was a branch created under conservative President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 2006 to "spread the culture of decency and hijab.”

Its unit comprises of men in green uniforms and women wearing black chadors, which cover the head and upper body.

The Islamic Republic is also said to be reviewing the 1983 law that requires women to cover their heads.

Full DR thread on the protests: https://www.documentingreality.com/forum/f266/iran-protests-2022-a-236408/

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In other despicable Iranian news :

They just hung a dude, EXECUTED HIM, because he "waged a war against some stupid deity" by stabbing a law enforcement official during a protest. This was a whole MONTH after the incident. No appeals process, no defense attorney, NOTHING.

And people complain about how our system of justice works here in the US. They give law enforcement a hard time for pulling them over for a ticket. Thank your lucky stars that you have the right to do that without being instantly incinerated.

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Sadly it will have no real effect with how terribly people (especially women) are treated over there.

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The mandatory hijab law is still in effect, as are the all the gender discriminatory laws, she added.

“Shariah law is still in place,” Dr. Ansary said. “So whether the morality police are there or not is irrelevant.”

So not much will change then.