Iran abolishes the Morale Police, the force that arrested the young Mahsa Amini, who ended up dead

Iran decided to abolish the Moral Police after more than two months of protests triggered by the death of Mahsa Aminidetained for allegedly violating the country’s strict dress code, local media announced this Sunday.

“The Morale Police It has nothing to do with the judiciary” and was deletedsaid the attorney general of IranMohammad Jafar Montazeri, according to the ISNA news agency.

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The prosecutor responded to a person participating in a religious ceremony in the city of Qom, southwest of Tehran, who asked him “Why the Morale Police was suppressed”.

The Morale Policeknown as Gasht-e Ershad [patrullas de orientación]was created under the mandate of the ultra-conservative president Mahmud Ahmadinejad [de 2005 a 2013] to “spread the culture of decency and hijab”, the female veil.

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Its units are made up of men in green suits and women wearing a black chador, a garment that covers the entire body except the face. The first patrols began their work in 2006.

The announcement, seen as a gesture towards the protesters, comes a day after authorities announced they were examining whether the 1983 law on the mandatory headscarf needed changes.

The Iranian President, Ebrahim Raisideclared on Saturday that Iran’s republican and Islamic foundations were constitutionally entrenched, but that there were “methods of applying the Constitution” that could be “flexible.”

Source: Elcomercio

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