It's crazy that in the modern day there are still places on Earth where failing to adhere to a religious dress code results in immediate public beatings or arrests. Crazy but also not that surprising unfortunately.
Wow, Iran is really quadrupling down on being shitty!
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Iranian authorities have arrested a prominent lawyer and human rights defender as she attended the funeral of a teenage girl who died after a disputed metro incident, her husband has said.
Nasrin Sotoudeh was arrested on Sunday in Tehran during the funeral of 16-year-old Armita Garawand, who died a day earlier after nearly a month in intensive care.
She died just over a year after the death in custody of Mahsa Amini, also a young Iranian Kurd, who was arrested by the morality police for allegedly breaching Iran’s strict women’s dress code in an incident that sparked mass protests.
The local Fars news agency said Sotoudeh “had been arrested and handed over to judicial authorities” for “not wearing a headscarf” and “disturbing the society’s mental security”.
Women have been increasingly flouting the Islamic republic’s strict dress code since months-long demonstrations erupted in September last year following Amini’s death in custody.
Garawand’s case was first reported on 3 October by the Kurdish-focused rights group Hengaw, which said she had been critically wounded during an incident on the Tehran metro involving Iran’s morality police.
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