The project will be studied and voted on by a judicial and cultural committee, avoiding the presentation of the law to the 290 parliamentarians and the public debate that this entails. The project can be approved “on a trial basis” for a period of three to five years.
He government of Iran tries urgently to approve the new and behind closed doors veil lawwhich would aggravate the penalties for not wearing the Islamic garment, in a small committee and not in a plenary session of Parliament to “prevent a movement against the hijab”.
Iran’s parliament approved this Sunday to refer the “Bill of Support to the Culture of Chastity and Hijab” to a judicial and cultural committee by 175 votes to 49 and 5 abstentions from a total of 238 deputies present, according to the Ikana hemicycle site.
The project will be studied and voted on by the said committee, which has the capacity to approve the project “on a trial basis” for a period of between three and five years, something that the country’s constitution allows in Article 85.
Thus, the executive avoids presenting the law to the 290 parliamentarians and the public debate that this entails, in addition to reviewing the numerous amendments tabled months before the parliamentary elections in March.
The bill, which has 70 articles, establishes penalties such as fines, prison terms of up to five years, the confiscation of cars and the driving ban, as well as deductions from salary, working conditions or the ban on access to banking services. .
Law versus motion
The chairman of the parliament’s judicial committee, which will study the law, Mousa Ghazanfaribadi, said today that “if sins related to chastity and hijab are being committed every day, it is because of the delay in passing this law. “
Another advocate of the law, conservative Hossein Ali Haji Deligani, argued that it is necessary to pass the text in this way because “we see that the situation has no boundaries, it is getting worse. We need to create a movement against the hijab.”
However, parliamentarians such as Gholamreza Nouri Qezeljeh expressed their rejection of the legislative project, saying it was too focused on “punishing” non-use of the veil, which carries “dangers”.
Almost a year after Amini’s death
That anti-hijab movement actually started on September 16 last year, after young Mahsa Amini died after being detained by the so-called Morality Police in Tehran, sparking strong protests across the country for months.
Since then, many Iranians have stopped wearing the forced veil, a piece of clothing that represents to them the visible form of discrimination they suffer, which goes far beyond covering their heads.
Iranian authorities have resorted to various methods of reimposing the garment’s use with the return to the country’s streets of the country’s dreaded morality police and punishments such as corpse cleaning or public building scrubbing.
Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisí confirmed this week that “this removal of the veil will definitely end” and claimed that women who do not cover themselves are “unconscious” and must be “conscious”.
Source: EITB
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