(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
BAKU, Azerbaijan, September 26. Iranian
students held a protest action at Tarbiat Modares University in
Iran's Tehran, on September 26, 2022, Trend reports.
The university's students asked for the release of other
students detained during the protests.
The protests in Iranian cities are ongoing, prompted by death of
a 22-year old Iranian woman Mahsa Amini, allegedly after being
beaten by Iran's morality police while in custody for violating the
strict hijab-wearing rules. Amini's death on September 16 triggered
mass protests in Iran several days later.
Hijab was made mandatory for women in Iran shortly after the
country's 1979 revolution. Women who break the strict dress code
risk being arrested by Iran's morality police. Based on the dress
code, women are required to fully cover their hair in public and
wear long, loose-fitting clothes.
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