Iran’s New Plan: Police To Use ‘Smart Technology Cameras’ To Identify Unveiled Women

To stricken Iran’s Islamic dress code rule, the Iranian police have planned to use ‘smart technology’ in public places to identify and then penalize women who violate this dress code.

Smart technology used to identify unveiled women

According to the official statement, the force would “take action to identify norm-breaking people by using tools and smart cameras in public places and thoroughfares.”

Afterwards, the police will send “the proof and warning messages to the violators of the hijab law” to “inform them about the legal consequences of repeating this crime.”

Following the death in custody of Kurdish-Iranian the 22-year-old, Mahsa Amini, for allegedly flouting it, the number of women in Iran defying the compulsory dress code has increased since then.

Speaking at an interview with state television, Iran’s police chief Ahmad-Reza Radan, “From next Saturday, people who remove their veil will be identified by using smart equipment.”

First, a warning will be given

He said, “People who remove their hijab in public places will be warned first and presented to the courts as a next step.”

Also, the car owners will receive a warning text if any of their passengers violate the dress code, and their vehicles will be seized if the offence is repeated, the police chief added.

On September 16 last year, Mahsa Amini died, three days after her arrest by the morality police.

Ahead of her brutal death, a wave of civil protests swept across the Islamic Republic.

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No tolerance accepted

On Saturday, the police also said that they would not tolerate “any individual or collective behaviour and actions that are contrary to the law”.

Last week, a viral video on social media showed a man throwing yoghurt at two women for not wearing hijab.

In late March, the head of the judiciary, Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei, said “Removing hijab amounts to enmity towards values and people who commit such abnormality will be punished”.

After the Islamic revolution of 1979, the requirement for women to wear a headscarf in public was enshrined in law shortly.