The president of the Iranian Supreme Court asks to prosecute attacks against Islamic law such as not wearing the veil

1 Apr. (EUROPE PRESS) –

The president of the Iranian Supreme Court, Gholamhosein Mohseni Ejei, has ordered the judges of the Iranian judicial system to prosecute “any type of abnormality against the law and ‘sharia'” or Islamic law.

In particular, he has asked to pursue any incident that “occurs in public and disturbs people of faith”, he pointed out during an act, according to the US radio station for Iran Radio Farda, in reference to acts in which women do not wear the veil Islamic on the street or in recordings on social networks.

“The authorities are obliged to report these cases to the competent judicial authorities for them to decide and these judicial authorities must be equally diligent in managing these cases,” he added.

In recent days, coinciding with the beginning of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, the news and arrests of women have multiplied for not respecting the Islamic rules on covering their heads and also of men for not respecting the daytime fasting that Ramadan implies.

“The courts will take charge with all their power of everything that threatens the psychological and physical security of the people and will avoid cases of non-compliance and distortion of public rights,” he stressed.

Any act in this sense “represents contempt” for the system of the Islamic Republic of Iran and its “values” and has denounced that Iran’s “enemies” abroad are the ones who promote these crimes.

In September, a wave of protests began in Iran, the most intense in decades, following the death after being arrested in Tehran of the young Kurdish-Iranian Mahsa Amini for allegedly not wearing the Islamic headscarf properly.

This same Saturday, the conservative deputy Hossein Ali Hayi Deligani has given the Judiciary a period of two days to “eliminate the legal loopholes related to chastity and the hijab” or else Parliament will process a new law.