Thursday, July 18, 2024
HomeIran News NowIran Human RightsIran: Chastity Patrols soon will appear on university campuses

Iran: Chastity Patrols soon will appear on university campuses

Repression in IranNCRI- In the latest move to expand the so-called "public security," soon Chastity Patrols will be roaming around campus in Bo-Ali University in the western city of Hamadan, according to Resistance sources in Iran.   

Since the introduction of the so-called "boosting public security," in April of 2007, hundreds of thousands of men and women have been the subject of cruel treatment by the State Security Forces (SSF) — mullahs' suppressive police — in the streets of Iran's cities. The officials of the Iranian regime, in various provinces across the nation, have used every opportunity to threaten citizens of the serious consequences of not obeying their orders.

In past three months alone, the SSF stopped more than 200,000 people in the streets under the pretext of "improper dressing" in the northwestern Azerbaijan province and Isfahan in central Iran.
 
Brig. Gen. Amir-Abbas Soufivand, chief of security in Isfahan, said, "In compliance with the plan to double the number of chastity patrols for combating improper dressing in the streets of Isfahan, this year, we will deal swiftly with men and women undermining the security… the security patrols have given oral warnings to 2,300 individuals with improper outfits. The police also have taken written pledges from the offenders not to repeat their actions. Since the start of the new Iranian year (beginning on March 20), more than 188,000 individuals have been stop on the streets of Isfahan for oral warnings," reported the state-run news agency Fars on May 28.

"The police have given 14,560 oral warnings and arrested 18 men and 49 women for immoral behavior [so far this year]," said Brig. Gen. Mohammad Ali Nosrati, a commander of the SSF in an interview with Fars in Azerbaijan on Wednesday.

Taking a major step in expanding the security plan to the Iranian schools is a new challenge to students which they seem not ready to accept at all costs.