A woman was accosted in Tehran. The Iranian police arrested her.
A woman was accosted in Tehran. The Iranian police arrested her.
Roshanak Molaei, 25, posted surveillance video of her harassment by a man on a motorcycle, sparking a chain of events that led to her disappearance into police custody.
Summary
Roshanak Molaei, a 25-year-old Iranian woman, disappeared after being detained by police for defying Iran's mandatory hijab laws.
Surveillance footage shows Molaei confronting a motorcyclist accused of harassment, and she was later summoned by cyberpolice over her social media post.
Molaei’s arrest has sparked international concern, as her whereabouts and condition remain unknown.
Previously arrested during the 2022 “Woman, Life, Freedom” protests, her case highlights ongoing oppression of women in Iran, despite claims of easing enforcement of hijab laws under President Masoud Pezeshkian.
Free the people of Iran
Did you expect better from a Muslim country?
Actually, there are many Muslim majority countries that are not extreme and where women have equal rights. Many of them, like the rest of the world, favor the patriarchy, but they aren’t specifically oppressive to women. Those are:
Indonesia, Malaysia, Albania, Turkey, Kazakhstan, Senegal, Morocco
The difference is their interpretation of Islam, and how that impacts the governing. These are the “bad” countries:
Iran, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Mauritania, Brunei
The real difference is that many if not all of the countries in your first list are officially secular. Thus I don't consider them to be Muslim countries I consider them to be secular countries with a majority Muslim population. The religion and the state are separate.
The ones in your latter list are actual Muslim countries because Islam is their official state religion and some of them like Iran are literal theocracies.
Given that clarification I'll ask again do you really expect better from a Muslim country?
Iran only really fits half into the latter category because the people are vastly more liberal than their government.
And if you look at polls (can't find them right now sorry) Iran is actually one of the least Muslim Muslim countries around when you drill down into dogma, e.g. belief in heaven, belief in angels, such things. The average Iranian is about as Muslim in their private faith as someone believing in reincarnation is Christian.
Iran was still a Muslim country when it was a democracy and women were free. until the US toppled their democratically elected leader and the following revolution was exploited by fascists.
Iran is not only Muslim. Iran is a end stage "Maga" country. Pure corruption at the top which doesn't even care to cover up and raging pedophilia in the circles of the elite.
Yes actually. Unlike you I am not ignorant of better examples. You should try to take your head out of your ass every now and then.