Iran is increasingly relieved of electronic surveillance and public to inform women who refuse to carry a mandatory scarf in public, even while stubborn are committed to sharper penalties for those who protest in the law, the United Nations Report published on Friday Found.
The discoveries of an independent international mission to determine the facts of the Islamic Republic of Iran come after finding last year that the theocracy of the country is responsible for “physical violence” that led to The death of Mahs Amina. Her death led to protest throughout the country against mandatory Hijab and public disobedience law against them, which continues today, despite the threat of violent arrest and prison.
“Two and a half years after the protests began in September 2022, women and girls in Iran continue to face systematic discrimination, in the law and in practice, which pervades all aspects of their lives, especially in terms of implementation of the obligatory hijab,” the report said.
“The state is increasingly relieved of alertness that sponsors the state in an apparent effort to include companies and private individuals in respect of hijab, portraying it as a civil responsibility.”
The Iranian mission at the UN in New York did not immediately respond to the request for commentary on the 20-page reports.
In it, UN investigators describe how Iran relies more and more on electronic surveillance. Among the efforts include Iranian officials arranging “air -free aircraft supervision” for women’s monitoring in public places. At the University of Amirkabir on Tehran, the authorities installed a facial recognition software at their front door to find women who did not wear a hijab, according to.
Supervisory cameras are believed to be included in the search for women on the main Iranian roads. UN investigators said they received the “Nazer” mobile phone app by Iranian police, which allows “proven” members of the public and police to report on women in vehicles, including ambulances, buses, metro and taxi.
“Customers can add the location, date, time and number of a license plate that happened to be a compulsory Hijab offense, which then ‘outlines’ the vehicle on the network, warning the police,” said the report. “Then triggers a text message (in real time) to the registered owner of the vehicle, warning them that they were found to be baptized by the Hijab warnings. “
These text messages led to dangerous situations. In July 2024. The police fired and paralyzed the woman, who the activists say she received such a message and fled with a checkpoint near the Caspian Sea.
Amini’s death encouraged the months of protest and a security action in which more than 500 people were killed and detained more than 22,000. After mass demonstrations, police called the implementation of the Hijab Act, but re -increased in April 2024. Under what the authorities called Noor – or “light” – a plan. At least 618 women were arrested within the Noor Plan, UN investigators said, citing a local group of human rights activist in Iran.
In the meantime, Iran killed at least 938 people last year, which is a triple increase compared to 2021, the UN said. Although many are convicted of drug charges, the report states that executions “indicate a relationship with the overall repression of disagreement in this period.”
“This is in accordance with the long -standing use of the death penalty and execution of power to instill fear as a tool of political repression against votes, including protesters and minorities,” the UN report said.
While Iran continues its suppression of hijab, it also faces the economic crisis due to American sanctions on the rapid advanced nuclear program. While US President Donald Trump called for new negotiations, Iran has yet to respond to a letter he sent to his 85-year-old supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Social unrest, along with economic troubles, remain concerned with Iranian theocracy.
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