Months after the country was rocked by unrest protesting the death of a woman detained for having some hair show from under her hajib while she was riding in a car with her family, Iran has reauthorized its religious morality police to stop women for immodesty, CBS News reports.
Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman visiting her brother in Tehran, was taken from the family’s vehicle and put into a van transporting other alleged violators of Iran’s strict laws suppressing women. She was beaten in the van according to other detainees, and she died of a heart attack and a brain injury after reaching the reeducation center. In the weeks of protests after her death, where women burned their hajibs or cut their long hair, more than 500 demonstrators were killed and 20,000 detailed.