Posted on 05/26/2007 12:21:53 AM PDT by freedom44
As controversial pictures and video clips of the police’s treatment of "inappropriately dressed" women are circulating on the worldwide web, the National Security Office forwarded a letter to newspapers asking them to refrain from criticizing any aspects of the so-called plan to increase public security.
From now on, newspapers and publications will be unable to criticize the various aspects of a plan that has already generated much controversy by pitting police officers against women in crowded streets of Tehran. In the past few days, several video clips taken by mobile phones have been circulating around the web: one is depicting a women being dragged on the ground by the police, another is of a woman getting kicked by officers, and a third shows a woman with a bloody face, following clashes with police officers at Haft Tir Square in Tehran. Such pictures and videos have been circulating widely on the web, and are available at popular website such as YouTube and highly-visited personal blogs. The BBC reporter in Tehran, Francess Harisson, began one of his latest reports by showing one such clip.
The official website of Kanoon Zanan Iran [“Association of Iranian Women”], which covers women’s issues, wrote a report about incidents at the Haft Tir Square: “On the morning and evening [Sunday] a number of officers in charge of implementing the Islamic dress code clashed with several young women. According to eye witnesses present at the scene, officers were attempting to arrest these women. As the women resisted their arrests, a number of men appeared on the scene and began arguing with officers.”
One business-owner at the Haft Tir Square told Kanun Zanan Iran, “Female officers warned three 25- to 30-year-old women about their clothing, but their harsh tone sparked a reaction among the three young women.”
One woman officer attempted to force one of the young women into a police car by puling on her arm, but she refused to enter the vehicle. A male officer then kicked the young girl in the shin, which led to the protest of passing pedestrians. These three women finally managed to escape the officers with the help of pedestrians on the scene. Ironically, their clothes were thorn off during the clash and they had no covering on their heads. A taxi driver who was present at the Haft Tir Square told Kanun Zana Iran, “This morning, police officers charged a young girl with inappropriate covering and dragged her into their vehicle. The young girl’s call for help sparked the public’s reaction.”
According to this taxi driver, following clashes between the public and police officers in the afternoon, a mother and daughter who were beaten by police officers voiced their protest by showing their bloody faces to the public and removing their head scarves. This mother and daughter were beaten while trying to capture the clash between police officers and the public on their mobile phones.
Great job, f44! Get these pics out.
I can’t wait until we give these punks the fight from people their own size.
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All the women should leave the country
All the people should leave the religion. Who would want this
for their women or children.
islam is a weak ‘religion’ that can only survive by intimidation.
/sarcasm off
It’s good to hear that passers by/strangers are resisting the cops and helping these women.
What the hell is wrong with these people that they put up with this kind of crap for ANY govt?
Obviously, you have never lived in a police state.
Seems Iraq is a police state and folks set up ied’s and what not. These folks can’t?
Iraq isn't a police state now. It was when Saddam and his two sons were running it. The mass graves we have found containing over 300,000 people, the rape rooms, the human shredders, and the gassing of whole villages prevented any mass uprisings or insurgencies.
Iranians are also being murdered and oppressed. Would you stick your head up if you knew that if discovered, your wife, children, parents, brothers and sisters and other relatives would be murdered or tortured? How do you think Stalin, Castro, and Chariman Mao maintained their control? It is not that easy to organize a resistance movement in a police state. Carter eased the Shah out of power by convincing him not to use Savak to clamp down on the opposition, all in the name of human rights. The mullahs are not going to make thatsame mistake.
What the hell is wrong with these people that they put up with this kind of crap for ANY govt?
Look at what we permitting in our own country. While we are sitting in front of our computers and television sets, our country is being stolen from us and given to terrorists and illegals by OUR government. And all we can manage to do is come on here and complain about it. what you are seeing in Iran is coming here sooner or later because we are fat and complacent.
But we tell ourselves we are doing something because we vote, and make phone calls to voice mails when our leaders turn against us.
There is so much more dissent inside Iraq than in Iran.
Your point is absurd.
Human beings should be able to dissent from their government without being met with such extreme violence.
Good point. We are allowing the political elites and their corporate/union/interest group puppet masters to change the very nature of this country without any real resistance. If this bill is signed, we are finished as a country, at least as we know it.
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