full image - Repost: 2 Iranian women who were physically assaulted in viral video for not wearing hijab have been arrested. (from Reddit.com, 2 Iranian women who were physically assaulted in viral video for not wearing hijab have been arrested.)
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This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 71%. (I'm a bot)President Ebrahim Raisi has said that the hijab is "a legal matter" in Iran after a viral video appeared to show a man throwing yoghurt at two uncovered women in a shop near a holy Shia Muslim city.Growing numbers of women have defied authorities by discarding their veils after nationwide protests that followed the death in September of a 22-year-old Iranian Kurdish woman in the custody of the morality police for allegedly violating hijab rules.Videos of unveiled women resisting the morality police have flooded social media.Judiciary chief Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei earlier threatened to prosecute "Without mercy" women who appear in public unveiled, Iranian media reported.Under Iranian law imposed after the 1979 revolution, women are obliged to cover their hair and wear long, loose-fitting clothes to disguise their figures.Such directives have in previous decades emboldened some people to attack women without impunity.Summary Source | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: women#1 media#2 hijab#3 shop#4 Reports#5Post found in /r/worldnews and /r/iranian.NOTICE: This thread is for discussing the submission topic. Please do not discuss the concept of the autotldr bot here.
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