March 6, 2015—The Iranian Parliament should immediately withdraw the
pending Plan to Promote Virtue and Prevent Vice, which explicitly calls
for Basij militias to enforce strict hijab (female dress), the
International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today. This plan
not only violates the rights of all Iranian women, it also presents a
clear and present danger to their continued safety.Further, the Iranian Judiciary should bring all efforts to bear to identify and bring to justice the perpetrators of the recent string of acid attacks against women in Iran, which have been linked to the extra-judicial enforcement of hijab called for in the Plan, the Campaign added.
The acid attacks, which began in late 2014 in the Iranian city of Isfahan, involved unidentified men flinging acid into the faces of women with whom they had no history of personal grudges. At least fourteen attacks have been reported, and eyewitnesses have reported that the assailants proclaimed they were defending hijab during the assaults. No one has been charged in any of the attacks.
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