NCRI – More than 50,000 people have been given verbal warnings in a ‘moral’ clampdown in Iran’s southern province of Fars, police chief Sirous Sajedian has announced.
And over 5,000 who ignored the warnings were referred to the Moral Security police, with written statements taken from 3,600 of them, Sajedian said.
He added: “The State Security Forces have given verbal notifications to 50,900 people. Out of the this group, some 5,100 people who did not pay attention to the verbal notifications were referred to the Moral Security Police. Written commitments were taken from 3,600 of them.
“In the month of Ramadan, some 4,980 shops in the province were inspected, in which 1,030 persons were not acting properly. Some 42 shops were shut down and 12 people were arrested.
“In the area of the promotion of virtue and prevention of vice there are 26 active organizations active, of which the State Security Forces is one.”
Laws on the ‘promotion of virtue and prevention of vice’ are used by Iran’s official institutions to arrest and humiliate hundreds of thousands of women every year.
Over the past weeks, many have been arrested in cities across Iran for eating and drinking in public or for disobeying strict rules on behaviour in shops and restaurants.
