Teenage girl is thrown to the ground face first by a police officer for not wearing hijab in Iran

Teenage girl is thrown to the ground face first by a police officer for not wearing hijab in Iran

  • The teenager was strolling unveiled in Shahr-e-Rey, 30 minutes south of Tehran 
  • A male officer wanted her to stop for the breach so a female could arrest her
  • She resisted but the officer dragged her and pushed her face to the ground 
  • The officer punches a man in the face as he tried to help the unveiled girl 

A police officer threw a teenager to the ground after he caught her strolling in public without a hijab in Iran. 

The girl was walking unveiled in Shahr-e-Rey,  a city just 30 minutes south of Tehran, when a male officer called out for her to stop. 

The policeman wanted the unidentified girl to stay still so he could arrange for a female officer to apprehend her. 

When the girl ignored him and kept walking, the officer dragged her face first to the ground.  

The police officer, pictured centre, can be seen putting his hands on a woman in Shahr-e-Rey near Tehran in Iran 

This is the moment the officer drags the teenager to the ground after she resisted his request to stand still and wait for a female to apprehend her

This is the moment the officer drags the teenager to the ground after she resisted his request to stand still and wait for a female to apprehend her

This is the moment the officer drags the teenager to the ground after she resisted his request to stand still and wait for a policewoman to attend the scene

Footage also shows the officer landing a punch on the chin of a young reaching out to help the attacked youngster. 

The clip, uploaded to Twitter by Iranian journalist, Masih Alinejad, shows the girl’s futile attempts to resist the policeman who is at least a foot taller than her. 

The officer throws her face first into the ground while members of the public can be seen trying to stop the officer. 

Police brutality against women unveiling is seen as a problem on the rise in the Islamic Republic, where Iran’s morality police enforce strict Shariah law. 

Young Iranian women relax in the afternoon on steps outside a shopping mall in northern Tehran, showing more of their hair than conservatives approve of

Young Iranian women relax in the afternoon on steps outside a shopping mall in northern Tehran, showing more of their hair than conservatives approve of

This includes ensuring that women cover all hair in public. 

From reports this year, women are increasingly risking falling foul of the morality police and leaving their hijab at home. 

Some are opting for loosely draped colourful scarves that show as much hair as they cover. 

Hardliners and clerics say they should be lashed for ‘disrupting social peace’.   

In February this year, an Iranian woman was sprayed in the face with tear gas after going outside without a headscarf, according to campaigners.

Iranian women wearing the chador, a tightly-bound head and neck scarf, attend a ceremony in support of the observance of the Islamic dress code for women in Tehran

Iranian women wearing the chador, a tightly-bound head and neck scarf, attend a ceremony in support of the observance of the Islamic dress code for women in Tehran

Women take memorial picture while spending an afternoon around the Persian Gulf Martyrs' Lake in Tehran, one not wearing the hijab or headscarf

Women take memorial picture while spending an afternoon around the Persian Gulf Martyrs’ Lake in Tehran, one not wearing the hijab or headscarf

Video of the altercation shows the woman arguing with a man – believed to be an undercover morality officer – about the country’s oppressive religious regime.

The woman can be heard calling the man ‘blind’ and ‘ill-fated’ for following the government, before he turns around to confront her.

For one young woman, the simple act of going out for a walk without a compulsory headscarf, or hijab, has become a display of defiance.

With every step, she risks harassment or even arrest by Iran’s morality police whose job is to enforce the strict dress code imposed after the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

‘I have to confess it is really, really scary,’ the 30-year-old fire-safety consultant told MailOnline in a WhatsApp audio message in July.    

 

 

 

 

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