Amid Protests, Iran To Review Decades-Old Mandatory Hijab Law: Report
NDTV
After the hijab law became mandatory, with changing clothing norms it became commonplace to see women in jeans and loose, colourful headscarves.
Iran said Saturday it is reviewing a decades-old law that requires women to cover their heads, as it struggles to quell more than two months of protests linked to the dress code.
Protests have swept Iran since the September 16 death in custody of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian of Kurdish origin arrested by the morality police for allegedly flouting the sharia-based law.
Demonstrators have burned their head coverings and shouted anti-government slogans. Since Mahsa Amini's death, a growing number of women have not been observing hijab, particularly in Tehran's fashionable north.
"Both parliament and the judiciary are working (on the issue)" of whether the law needs any changes, Iran's attorney general Mohammad Jafar Montazeri said.
