The declarations of the Attorney General on a supposed abolition of the brigade question. The arrests linked to the wearing of the veil continues while new calls to demonstrate have been launched.
by Ghazal Golshiri
Recoil or tactical to lower the pressure? Since December 3, the publication of the declarations of the Iranian attorney general, Mohammad Jafar Montazeri, on a supposed abolition of the moral police, has aroused debates and questions. Asked two days earlier about the “inactivity of the moral police”, the Attorney General replied: “This police has nothing to do with the judiciary and his activities were arrested by the organization which had it Implementation (…) “, without more details. Before adding: “Of course, the judicial power continues to monitor [citizens] behavior in society.”
In recent weeks, while Iran has been crossed by an unprecedented uprising at the national level, more and more women are going out without veil in the streets of major cities of the country. It seems that the activities of the customs police, responsible for ensuring compliance with dress codes, have decreased sharply. The Islamic Republic may have made the choice to use all its forces to suppress the dispute. According to human rights organizations, at least 450 civilians were killed and 18,000 people arrested during these demonstrations organized after the death, on September 16, of Mahsa Amini, 22 years old, at the end of his police custody in Tehran for a veil deemed “poorly worn” by the moral police. Since then, men and women have come down to the street, with the flagship slogan: “Woman, life, freedom.”
In this context, no organization, no official manager has confirmed the comments of the Attorney General and the abolition of the activities of the moral police. On December 4, the Iranian state chain in Arabic, Al-Alam, rejected the interpretation made by some of the prosecutor general. “Foreign media tried to qualify the words of the Attorney General as any decline in the Islamic Republic on the question of the hijab following recent riots. However, no official of the Islamic Republic of Iran confirmed the suspension of The Police of mores “, can be read on the Al-Alam website.
” ambiguous declarations “
On the spot, the declarations of the Attorney General hardly convince the Iranians with regard to the disappearance of this brigade. Some lawyers living in the country, like Ali Mojtahedzadeh, described the comments of the attorney general as “non -transparent” and “ambiguous”. “Why is he not saying which organization is at the origin of this police? What are the details of the abolition of the moral police? What is the meaning of this abolition when illegal decisions like dismissal [In Qom, at the end of November] of the director of a bank for having received a poorly veiled client still exist? “, He wrote on Twitter. Another lawyer, Mohsen Borhani, sees in the declarations of the prosecutor the attitude of Iranian leaders who, by their policies, “create crises” and who, then “flee all responsibility”. According to him, “no one takes responsibility for the moral police,” he wrote on Twitter.
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