Iranian Authorities detained a young woman who was seen walking around in her underwear at a university in Tehran, according to video shared on social media and state news agencies, activists said. Protest against the implementation of the country’s strict dress code.

The video, which shows the woman sitting on an outdoor staircase and then walking around in her underwear, was shared widely on social media over the weekend and was geolocated by NBC News to a branch of the Islamic Azad University in the capital Tehran.

Other students, including women wearing state-mandated headscarves, watch the woman in astonishment as a group of more formally dressed older people hold a conversation nearby. In another video geolocated by NBC News, the woman is seen walking along a street near the campus before she is seen struggling with several people near a car.

He was then taken to the police station, according to Iran’s semi-official news agency Tasnim.

It is not known exactly when the incident occurred, but both the video and the news began circulating in Iranian media on Saturday.

The woman’s identity and whereabouts are unclear, but the case has attracted the attention of activists and human rights groups who have expressed concerns about her safety. Authorities in the Islamic Republic used this method. morality police enforcing strict dress codes, a crackdown that has been in place since the protests that gripped the country two years ago.

Amnesty International shared the video on X and called for the immediate release of the woman who was said to have been “violently arrested on November 2 after removing her clothes to protest abusive enforcement of mandatory veiling by security officials.”

Mai Sato, the United Nations special rapporteur on Iran, said in a post on X on Saturday that she would “closely monitor this incident, including the response of the authorities.”

State newspaper Farhikhtegan and the state-run conservative Fars news agency reported the arrest, saying the woman had acted “inappropriately”.

In the report, which also included a blurred photo of the woman, Fars said that the student “came to classes dressed inappropriately, and after receiving a warning from campus security about the dress code, she took off her clothes and walked around the university.” “

University spokesman Seyed Amir Mahjob said the student was admitted to a psychiatric hospital after being detained and an investigation into his motivations was ongoing.

One Stream Saturday on XMahjob denied allegations that the student was protesting the dress code and questioning his mental state.

His arrest is another incident that echoes what happened in Iran. Mahsa Amini caseAmini, an Iranian Kurdish woman who died in hospital after being detained by police in September 2022, was detained by the country’s morality police for allegedly not complying with the strict dress code. His death sparked nationwide protests, posing the biggest challenge to the theocratic regime since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

U.S. officials and others imposed sanctions on Iranian officials for their role in the brutal crackdown that followed.

Although security forces ended the protests with violence, since Amini’s death Iranian women and girls have occasionally defiantly removed their headscarves in public, and others from around the world have joined in solidarity.

Even though it carries risksIranian women can increasingly be seen without headscarves in restaurants, cafes and shopping malls in Tehran, especially at night or on weekends.