Iran's judiciary said Tuesday it will "firmly punish" women who violate strict dress rules, as the United Nations warned Tehran is trying to crush protests by weaponising the death penalty.
Tehran, Jan 10 (EFE).- Iran’s judiciary on Tuesday instructed the police to “firmly punish” women who refuse to wear the hijab headscarf, which is obligatory in public. The prosecutor’s office said in a statement that disregarding hijab enforcement, introduced four years after the 1979 Islamic Revolution, is one of the “most evident crimes,” the semi-official …
GENEVA Iran is weaponising the death penalty to frighten the public and crush dissent, and its execution of protesters without due process amounts to state-sanctioned killing, the UN said on Tuesday.Tehran has executed four people in connection with nearly four months of demonstrations in the country, with two more executions scheduled imminently and at least 17 other