A woman at an Iranian university stripped down to her underwear in an apparent act of protest after university security forces reportedly violently stopped her for not wearing a headscarf.
The Islamic Republic of Iran has a history of taking protesters to psychiatric centers, claiming their acts of resistance are due to their unstable mental health.
A growing number of Iranian women have been pushing back against laws requiring headscarves since the deadly nationwide protests in September 2022.
The protests followed the tragic death of Mahsa Amini, a young Iranian Kurdish woman who was taken into morality police custody for allegedly not fully complying with hijab rules. The 22-year-old Kurdish woman’s death in police custody triggered Iran’s longest anti-government protests since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Human rights groups say more than 500 people were killed in those demonstrations and, according to the Islamic Republic News Agency, over 20,000 people were arrested.
Source: Iran detains woman who stripped to her underwear at university in apparent protest – ABC News