Iranian police launch crackdown on dress codes
16/6/08
Iranian police have launched a more extensive crackdown on “social corruption” such as women flouting Islamic dress codes, the Farhang-e Ashti newspaper reported on Monday. “In its wider crackdown which has started from Saturday, police will confront those who appear in public in an indecent way and will also seal off shops selling un-Islamic dress,” the newspaper said, quoting an unnamed police official.The dress code imposed after Iran’s 1979 Islamic revolution requires women to cover all their hair and wear long, loose-fitting clothes to disguise the shape of their bodies.
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Tags: Iran, Religion, Womens Rights