New Delhi: Protest-Hit Iran has abolished its morality police, the Prosecutor General said on Sunday, as reported by news agency AFP.
This comes after the attorney general on Saturday said that the parliament and the judiciary are reviewing the decades-old hijab law which sparked the 3-month-long protests in the country. The demonstration, according to the United Nations, is believed to have claimed more than 300 lives so far.
The protests, which started in September this year, across the country were sparked by the death of 22-year-old Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini in the custody of morality police after being arrested for allegedly breaching the country’s strict dress code for women.
The furious Iranian protesters from all layers of society burned their head coverings, shouted anti-government slogans and tossed turbans off Muslim clerics’ heads to demonstrate their defiance, which is now seen as the biggest challenge to Iran’s leaders since the 1979 revolution.