UN special rapporteur warned Iranian He said he was following a case Woman who stripped down to her underwear was arrested Protesting an attack that allegedly violates the country’s notoriously strict rules scarf laws.

Human rights groups and activists have called on Iranian authorities to release the woman, whose whereabouts have been unknown since her arrest over the weekend.

The incident sparked outrage among Iranian dissidents, two years after thousands of women took to the streets in protest in 2022. cruel death related to Mahsa Amini In 2022.

“I will follow this incident closely, including the reaction of the authorities,” Mai Sato said about X. He shared a video showing the woman sitting and walking around the university campus in her underwear.

In another video, he is seen being detained by security forces and forced into a car.

Iranian security forces reportedly attacked the woman and tore her clothes TeheranOn Saturday, a lawsuit was filed against the science and research branch of the Islamic Azad University for not complying with the hijab rules.

local daily Hamsehri The website cited a “knowledgeable source” and reported that the woman “has serious mental problems and will likely be transferred to a mental hospital following investigations.”

farhikhteganA newspaper affiliated with Azad University claimed that he was admitted to a mental health facility.

In a video spread on state media, a man who identified himself as the woman’s husband claimed that the woman was a mother of two and had mental health problems.

Amir Mahjoub, general manager of public relations at Islamic Azad University, said: “Following an inappropriate action by a student in the university’s science and research department, campus security intervened and handed the person over to law enforcement.”

“The reasons and underlying reasons for the student’s actions are currently under investigation.”

Her arrest triggered a backlash against the Iranian regime, which has previously suppressed dissent using familiar techniques that authorities have used to repress female protesters.

Jailed Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi described the woman’s body as a “symbol of rebellion, anger and resistance” in her statement from prison. Iran International reported.

While calling for the release of the student, Ms. Mohammadi said the women paid the price for their defiance but did not give in to force.

While the hashtag ‘Science and Research Girl’ became trending on social media, people made art and statements in solidarity with the woman.

“Iranian women are rebelling against everything that imprisons them. They rebel against everything that invites them into silence,” activist Hamed Esmaeilion wrote in Arabic.

Amnesty International’s Iran unit called on authorities to release the student “immediately and unconditionally”.

Since Amini’s death, a growing number of women have been defying the country’s strict hijab laws by removing their veils.

Twenty-two year old Amini She died after being detained by the morality police for not wearing her headscarf correctly. His death was a breaking point, it created a spark unprecedented protests The protest, which lasted three months in the country and was remembered with the slogan “Women, life, freedom”.

A months-long security crackdown followed It killed more than 500 people and saw more than 22,000 detained.

However, media reports indicate that nothing has changed since the protests, and scattered photographs and videos have emerged showing women and girls being roughed up by police officers.

Iran in October 2023 young Armita Geravand She was injured in a mysterious incident that occurred in the Tehran subway while she was not wearing a headscarf. He later died in hospital after falling into a coma.