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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
World
Lydia Chantler-Hicks

Morality police return to Iran’s streets in fresh crackdown on women not wearing headscarves

Iranian authorities on Sunday announced a new campaign to force women to wear the Islamic headscarf, as so-called morality police returned to the streets.

On Sunday, police spokesman General Saeed Montazerolmahdi said the morality police would resume notifying and then detaining women not wearing hijab in public.

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