UK imposes penalties on Iran's "morality police"
Date
10/11/2022 8:33:35 AM
(MENAFN) The so-called "morality police" in Iran known as Gasht-e-Ershad, which is in charge of enforcing the Islamic dress code, has been sanctioned by the United Kingdom after being accused of " repression of women and girls." London has also provided an explanation for the limitations by pointing to what it called Tehran's "shocking violence" meted out to protesters when Mahsa Amini, 22, died while being held by the police.
London pledged on Monday to "hold [Iranian authorities] to account" for allegedly employing violence and imprisonment threats to influence how Iranian women behave and dress in public.
Similar to a move the United States made a few weeks ago, the sanctions target the whole force as well as its commander, Mohammed Rostami Cheshmeh Gachi, and the director of its Tehran Division, Haj Ahmed Mirzaei. The Iranian charge d'affaires had already been called by the British Foreign Ministry to express their displeasure with the police crackdown on the protestors.
Amini was taken into custody by the law enforcement agency, whose full name is "guidance patrols’," last month for reportedly donning her hijab incorrectly. She was taken to a police station alongside other inmates as is regular protocol to listen to a lecture on "Islamic values."
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