Man pours yoghurt on unveiled Iranian women, women arrested

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : Demonstrations have been ongoing in Iran for years, in the past prompted by rigged elections to oust moderate candidates.
44% : He earlier threatened to prosecute 'without mercy' women who appear in public unveiled While many women choose to wear or nor to wear the hijab across the Muslim world, it has been a legal requirement to wear the veil in Iran since the Islamic Revolution of 1979.
41% : Iran experiences much censorship with social media channels blocked and media largely controlled by the state.
38% : The shopkeeper intervened and threw the attacker out, only to receive a warning himself for allowing the unveiled women to be in his store READ MORE: Boys and girls as young as 12 'are being raped, flogged and given electric shocks while held for taking part in protests against morality police in Iran'
38% : She fell into a coma after her arrest and died in suspicious circumstances in hospital in Tehran on 16 September 2022.

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