The regime of Iran seeks to approve of urgency already door closed the new law of the veil, which would toughen the penalties for the lack of use of the islamic garmentin a small commission and not in a plenary session of the Parliament to “prevent a movement against the hijab”.
The Iranian Parliament approved this Sunday to send the “Chastity and Hijab Culture Support Bill» to a judicial and cultural commission. The measure was adopted with 175 votes in favor, 49 against and 5 abstentions from the total of 238 deputies present, reported the website of the chamber icana.
Thus, the Executive avoids presenting the law before the 290 parliamentarians and the public debate that this entails, in addition to reviewing the numerous amendments that have been presented, months before the parliamentary elections in March.
“On a trial basis”
The project will be studied and voted on by a judicial and cultural commission behind closed doors that has the capacity to approve the project “on trial» for a period of time between three and five yearssomething that allows Constitution of the country in its article 85.
The bill, which has 70 articles, establishes punishments such as fines, jail terms of up to five years, the confiscation of cars and the ban on driving, as well as deductions from salary, employment benefits or the ban on accessing banking services.
The Chairman of the Judicial Commission Parliamentwho will study the law, Mousa Ghazanfaribadiaffirmed today that “if sins related to chastity and the hijab occur every day, it is because of the delay in the approval of this law.”
Another of the promoters of the law, Hossein Ali Haji Deligani, argued that it is necessary to approve the text in this way because “we see that the situation has no limits, it is getting worse. We have to prevent a movement against hijab.”
However, parliamentarians like Gholamreza Nouri Qezeljeh They showed their rejection of the legislative project, considering that it focuses too much on “punishing” the lack of use of the veil, which entails “dangers”.
That movement against hijab actually began on September 16 of last year, after the young Mahsa Amini died after being arrested by the call morality police in Tehransparking strong protests for months across the country.
Since then, many Iranians have stopped wearing the forced veil, a garment that represents for them the visible form of discrimination they suffer, which goes far beyond having to cover their heads.
The Iranian authorities have resorted to various methods to reimpose the use of the garment with the return to the streets of the country of the feared morality police and punishments such as cleaning up corpses or scrubbing public buildings.
The President of Iran, Ebrahim Raisiaffirmed this week that “this removing the veil is going to definitely end” and maintained that women who do not cover themselves are “unconscious” who must be “made aware”.
