“Thousands of Iranian women have been cautioned over their poor Islamic dress this week and several hundred arrested in the capital Tehran in the most fierce crackdown on what’s known as ‘bad hijab’ for more than a decade … One shopkeeper selling evening dresses told us the moral police had ordered him to saw off the breasts of his mannequins because they were too revealing.”

The moral police are forcibly cutting men’s hair if it’s deemed too long or if it’s gelled, and stopping women in their cars and the street if their dress is deemed “bad hijab”. The move is unpopular in Iran. From the BBC, here.

Posted Friday, April 27th, 2007 @ 6:22 pm
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