Police in Tehran ordered to arrest women in 'un-Islamic' dress
Police in Tehran ordered to arrest women in 'un-Islamic' dress ·
Taxi drivers responsible for clothes of passengers·
Purge allied with effort to cut viewing of western TV Robert Tait in Tehran
Thursday April 20, 2006
The Guardian
Iran's Islamic authorities are preparing a crackdown on women flouting the stringent dress code in the clearest sign yet of social and political repression under President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
From today police in Tehran will be under orders to arrest women failing to conform to the regime's definition of Islamic morals by wearing loose-fitting hijab, or headscarves, tight jackets and shortened trousers exposing skin.
Offenders could be punished with £30 fines or two months in jail.
Officers will also be authorised to confront men with outlandish hairstyles and people walking pet dogs, an activity long denounced as un-Islamic by the religious rulers.
Taxi drivers responsible for clothes of passengers·
Purge allied with effort to cut viewing of western TV Robert Tait in Tehran
Thursday April 20, 2006
The Guardian
Iran's Islamic authorities are preparing a crackdown on women flouting the stringent dress code in the clearest sign yet of social and political repression under President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
From today police in Tehran will be under orders to arrest women failing to conform to the regime's definition of Islamic morals by wearing loose-fitting hijab, or headscarves, tight jackets and shortened trousers exposing skin.
Offenders could be punished with £30 fines or two months in jail.
Officers will also be authorised to confront men with outlandish hairstyles and people walking pet dogs, an activity long denounced as un-Islamic by the religious rulers.
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