More than 50 Christian converts have been detained over the past week in five Iranian cities, and Christians said the number could rise.
The reported crackdown by Islamic authorities comes as Iran “doubled down” on hijab enforcement and policing women since protests erupted in the fall of 2022, rights group Amnesty International said.
Between April and July, “authorities…waged an intensified nationwide crackdown on women and girls who choose not to wear headscarves in public,” the rights group said.The trend reflected the hardline leaders’ commitment to the mandatory Islamic dress code despite widespread discontent.Government measures included redeploying the morality police responsible for enforcing the strict dress code. The organization had largely disappeared after it detained Mahsa Amini, the 22-year-old woman who died in detention for “improper hijab” in September 2022.Tactics also ranged from using facial recognition to sending […]
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