The video links in the story below do not work for me. Has Instagram taken them down? Certainly all the social media giants are racing to be Sharia-compliant, but to abandon these courageous women to their fate would be particularly outrageous.
Meanwhile, this is the regime that has just been named to the UN commission on women’s rights.
“Videos Shed Light On ‘Violent Assaults’ On Iranian Women Over Dress Code,” RFE/RL, March 12, 2019:
Videos shared on social media recently have demonstrated the “shocking levels of abuse” women in Iran face from morality police and pro-government “thugs” seeking to enforce the country’s strict dress code, Amnesty International says.
“Iran’s forced hijab laws are not only deeply degrading and discriminatory, they are also being used to justify violent assaults on women and girls in the streets,” Philip Luther, the London-based human rights watchdog’s Middle East and North Africa research and advocacy director, said in a statement on March 12.
The statement said that women in Iran were “routinely stopped in the street at random by morality police, who insult and threaten them, order them to pull their head scarves forward to hide strands of hair, or give them tissues to wipe off their make-up.”
They are also physically assaulted, including by being “slapped in the face, beaten with batons, handcuffed, and bundled into police vans,” it added.
The statement mentions a video posted online last month in which a woman films a confrontation that she says began after a pro-government vigilante ordered her to wear her hijab properly. The man is seen hurling insults at the woman and, when she objects, he turns around and sprays her in the face with what appears to be pepper spray.
Another clip shows a man insulting and ordering a woman to put on her head scarf. The woman is heard screaming about his threat to fire a stun gun at her and the man says: “I did not fire at you. I only showed it to you.”
A third video shows a plainclothes man standing next to a morality-police van and aiming a gun at men and women who have intervened to stop the violent arrest of a woman who is not wearing a head scarf….
The videos were posted on Instagram by exiled Iranian journalist and women’s rights activist Masih Alinejad, who is based in the United States….

Ashley says
I was able to get this link to work to view the videos:
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2019/03/iran-pro-government-vigilantes-attack-women-for-standing-up-against-forced-hijab-laws/
CRUSADER says
“The Wind in My Hair: My Fight for Freedom in Modern Iran” book by Masih Alinejad
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36204334-the-wind-in-my-hair
An extraordinary memoir from an Iranian journalist in exile … … : a woman standing proudly, face bare, hair blowing in the wind.
[Quite an interesting read.]
>> Feminists, pay heed.
gravenimage says
+1
I have waist-length hair, and like to feel the sun and the wind on it.
CRUSADER says
Lovely image, Graven.
🙂
gravenimage says
🙂
mortimer says
mortimer says
Women are putting the hijab on a stick and waving it as a protest.
Message: STICK IT !!!
mortimer says
Free Nasrin Sotoudeh NOW!
Nasrin Sotoudeh, a prominent Iranian human rights lawyer, has been sentenced to 38 years in prison and 148 lashes because of her work defending women’s rights & protesting against Iran’s forced hijab laws.
The new sentence of 33 years in prison brings Nasrin’s total sentence – after two grossly unfair trials – to 38 years in prison. Nasrin has dedicated her life to peaceful human rights work, including defending women who peacefully protest against Iran’s degrading forced hijab (veiling) laws.
Women and girls in Iran are not allowed to leave their homes unless they cover their hair with a headscarf and cover up their arms and legs with loose clothing. Nasrin wanted to change this and she was jailed for it.
This is the harshest sentence recorded against a human rights defender in Iran in recent years, suggesting that the authorities are stepping up their repression. These sentences keep Nasrin separated from her husband and two children and stop her from being able to carry out her important work as a human rights lawyer.
gravenimage says
Yes–that grim story was covered here at Jihad Watch, Mortimer.
christianblood says
SATANIC, PRO-ALQAEDA U$A IS FUNNELING BILLIONS TO ITS SAUDI AND ALQAEDA ALLIES IN YEMEN! ANTI-CHRIST & HOLLYWOODIZED U$A=ISIS! THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NOOO DIFFERENCE!
christianblood says
US is crazily obsessed demonizing Iran but it can’t win!
christianblood says
The Anti-Iranian conference held in Poland ended in failure!
christianblood says
Weekly public beheadings in Saudi Arabia! (Graphic)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3502079/Saudi-Arabia-s-kingdom-savagery-DOES-Britain-cosy-butchers.html
gravenimage says
In other words, christianblood wants to see *more* women beaten for not wearing the Hijab. *Ugh*.
christianblood says
In the meantime, just like its hollywood wing, satanic, pro-ISIS, pro-Saudi and jihadist-backing U$ government doubles down on giving millions to Al-Qaeda “White Helmets” in Syria! US has the blood of Christians and other minorities in its evil hands! O’ God, please don’t let them get away with this! More of this below:
https://www.rt.com/news/453849-white-helmets-usa-funding/
gravenimage says
Note that christianblood refuses to say *anything* against forced veiling and its violent enforcement–just as he did on the “Islamic Republic of Iran sentences lawyer who defends women who don’t wear hijab to 38 years prison, 148 lashes” thread, despite being asked to at least a half dozen times.
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2019/03/islamic-republic-of-iran-sentences-lawyer-who-defends-women-who-dont-wear-hijab-to-38-years-prison-148-lashes
Instead, he hopes to distract by posting this spam again about someone winning an award for a documentary.
He likes to pretend that Anti-Jihadists here support the White Helmets, despite this being baseless.
Note that he has also refused to say anything critical about Iran hanging gay people, threatening to “wipe Israel off the map”, and stoning women to death.
christianblood says
GREEDY, GODLESS & ANTI-CHRIST U$A IS TRANSFERRING NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY TO AL-QAEDA SAUDI-ARABIA!
christianblood says
Satanic U$A is footing 1 Billion taxpayer dollars to give new missiles to its Saudi=ISIS allies!
christianblood says
A journalist to a U$ under secretary::
“..If U$ cares about democracy and human rights why not preach it in Saudi-Arabia?…”
Watch how US under secretary answers it!
christianblood says
gravenimage
Iranian Khumeinist Revolution Is Made In America:
Ashley says
Boromir’s Horn,
Thank you for being such a brilliant, humorous and refreshing voice on this forum.
Best to you.
gravenimage says
No one here supports the sanguinary Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, as christianblood pretends. He has to stoop to strawman arguments to distract from the horrors in Iran.
gravenimage says
Boromir’s Horn and Ashley, 🙂
Ashley says
Jesus, Graven. I don’t know how you, Wellington and others can put up with CB. The video postings are over-the-top.
Boromir’s Horn has a knack for calling out horseshit.
As do you, my friend and mentor. If not for you…
Thanks, Graven.
gravenimage says
Thank you, Ashley–kind words.
Usually christianblood just tediously spams the same old crap here–but some of his stuff is deeply disturbing, like the time he said I was resisting the Truth of Christ–spelling his–for not wanting to be gang raped and beheaded by Muslims. Very troubling.
I agree about Wellington–he is very patient, and always measured and rational, even when dealing with apologists for all sorts of barbarism.
Always good to see you posting here, Ashley. I hope that apart from dealing with the unending stream of Islamic savagery here at Jihad Watch that you are well.
CRUSADER says
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2013/…/nicolai-sennels-psychology-why-islam-creates-m…
Nicolai Sennels: Psychology: Why Islam creates monsters. Sep 27, 2013
Psychopathic people and behaviour are found within all cultures and religions. But one tops them all — by many lengths. The daily mass killings, terror, persecutions and family executions committed by the followers of Islam are nauseating, and the ingenuity behind the attacks — always looking for new and more effective ways of killing and terrorising people — is astonishing: hijacking jumbo jets and flying them into skyscrapers, hunting unarmed and innocent people with grenades and automatic rifles in shopping malls, planting bombs in one’s own body, using model airplanes as drones, attaching large rotating blades to pickup trucks and using them as human lawn movers, killing family members with acid or fire, hanging people publicly from cranes in front of cheering crowds, etc. It makes one ask oneself: what creates such lack of empathy and almost playful and creative attitude towards murdering perceived enemies?
This is a question for psychologists like me.
Studying the Muslim mind…
[Worth reviewing this]
Stacy says
Before we tar all religions, let’s narrow it to those whose creed endorses killing apostates, subjugating women, using child soldiers, and glorifying their deity through violence. My religion does not endorse any of these. While my co-religionists may kill or rape it is condemned, not allowed, by our religion.
CRUSADER says
Probably what makes them psychopaths….that they do so despite religion.
But there is one religious ideology which promotes systematic psychopathy:
ISLAM, which we know is grim.
gravenimage says
+1
Keys says
Not a member of Instagram, Robert, but the video links work for me. Of course, I can not tell if any have been edited since they were first posted.
mortimer says
Kudos to Masih Aliejad:
CRUSADER says
Hurrah! for Masih Alinejad
CRUSADER says
MEN IN HIJAB
Now that could be a magnetic performance art to bring attention to the insanity.
gravenimage says
And note that almost everyone named “Masih” (from “Messiah”) is Christian.
Walter Sieruk says
In that harsh and heartless “mullah regime” of Iran in which Muslims males engage in brutal and violent assaults on Iranian women for not wearing the hijab is yet more than enough proof of the vicious misogyny of Islam .
Such malicious behavior, as seen in those hateful attacks against the women is also further proves that the old saying must be true. That saying is that “Evil is always looking for an excuse.”
In the specific cases, described in the above article, this evil is the malice-filled, oppressive misogynistic religion of Islam
gravenimage says
Iran: Videos show violent assaults on women for not wearing hijab
………………….
Hideous. And now a lawyer who defended some of these women has been sentenced to 148 lashes and 38 years in prison.
God, I hate Islam.
CRUSADER says
In Iran, women who appear without a headscarf in public are subjected to lashings and jail, as demanded by Sharia law. Masih Alinejad comes from Iran but lives in exile. She rose to prominence thanks to her online campaigns ‘My Stealthy Freedom,’ ‘White Wednesdays’ and ‘Men in Hijab.’ Her protest against Iran’s compulsory hijab rule has won her followers from around the world.
gravenimage says
Thank you for that information, CRUSADER.