Iran: Women beat up by the Chastity Units

NCRI – In past few weeks, the State Security Forces (SSF) – mullahs' suppressive police – Chastity Units beat up young women in streets in major cities such as Tehran and the southern city of Shiraz.

Chastity Units patrolling the neighborhoods stop young women and after a few questions beat them up before the eyes of local residents and shop keepers.

NCRI – In past few weeks, the State Security Forces (SSF) – mullahs' suppressive police – Chastity Units beat up young women in streets in major cities such as Tehran and the southern city of Shiraz.

Chastity Units patrolling the neighborhoods stop young women and after a few questions beat them up before the eyes of local residents and shop keepers.

In one such incident, a Chastity Unit stopped a woman in Nirou-Havai district East Tehran following a brief squabble; the agents riding in a police van began beating the frightened woman.

Youths standing in the street corner intervened to get the woman freed but they were also beaten up and were forced into the police van.

Such inhuman behavior is in line with the suppressive "boosting public security plan" first introduced in April of 2007.

The plan's real goal was to combat increased popular uprisings. Mass street arrests of hundreds of thousands of women and youth under the pretext of "mal-veiling" and cracking down on "thugs and hooligans" followed. In the same period, more than 300 prisoners were sent to gallows.