SortArà presented tomorrow, March 18, to the Human Rights Council The new UN report dedicated to Iran. It tells of intrusive drones and digital technologies to monitor compliance with the hijab law. There is talk of a strategy of “vigilance sponsored by the state”. Of people invited to use specialized apps to report women who violate the clothing code. Of a repression that intensifies.
Iran, technology spying on women who do not wear the veil. The UN report
Particularly narrow checks would be in place in the capital Tehran and in the southern Iran. The potential consequences are serious. A simple badly put hijab – say the UN observers – can lead to arrests, beatings and even rapes in custody. «Two and a half years after the beginning of the protests in September 2022 (following the death of Mahsa Amini, ed), women and girls in Iran continue to undergo systematic discrimination, in the law and in practice. Discrimination that permeate all aspects of their lives, in particular as regards the application of the compulsory hijab “, says the report.
So, for example, At the entrance gate of the Amirkabir University of Tehranthe authorities have installed facial recognition software to identify rebellious women. And also normal surveillance cameras on the main Iranian roads are used to look for women without veil.
The Iranian police use drones and spy apps, and looks for accomplices
Thanks to Specials Spy apps, such as “Nazer”, offered by the Iranian police, citizens can also report discovered women On board vehicles such as ambulances, buses, subway and taxis. Owned by Faraja (command of the law enforcement of the Islamic Republic of Iran), is a software that helps the “hijab-baans” authorized to report people who do not follow the government rules on clothing and hijab.
“Users can add the place, date, time and license plate number and the alleged infringement of the hijab obligation to the obligation. And then report the vehicle online, noting the police », reads the report.
Again, according to the report they were ascertained cases of sexual violence in custody. Like that of a woman arrested and beaten wildly, subjected to two fake executions, raped and then subjected to a group rape.
A road in the historic city of Isfahan, 450 km south of Tehran. (Photo by Mortaza Nikoubazl/Nurphoto via Getty Images)
March 18, 2025, a key session of the United Nations Human Rights Council
As Talked in preview by BBCthe United Nations investigators interviewed about 300 victims and witnesses. They examined in depth the Iranian judicial system, judging it in any way independent of political power. According to the report, the families of the torture victims are also “systematically intimidated”. Extraguditious executions of three children and three adult demonstrators were also found later, later liquidated by the state as suicides.
Tomorrow, explains Amnesty International, will be a key session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, in which the mission of the assessment of the facts and the special speaker will also be renewed. AND It would also be a very important opportunity for the international community to take a position in defense of women and girls rights in the country.
«The Iranian authorities consider women and girls who claim their rights as one Existential threat to political and security establishment». Explains it Diana Eltahawy, vice -director of Amnesty International for the Middle East and North Africa.
Repression against activists after women’s day
In recent weeks, repression has been intensifying, in Iran, also towards activists, reports Amnesty. From 8 March, the International Women’s Day, the Iranian Authorities arbitrarily arrested at least five women. Leila Pashaei, Baran Saedi, Sohaila Motaei and Soma Mohammadrezaei had participated in the events of the International Women’s Day in the province of Kurdistan. Detained in insulation cells in a detention center in Sanandaj, in the province of Kurdistan, they were questioned without their lawyers.
In particular, Leila Pashaei was arrested in her Sanandaj house on March 10th. He had spoken against the mandatory veil, childhood marriage, violence against women and women’s executions during an event for International Women’s Day. “Women in Iran are held prisoner by the authorities who fear the power of women … the movement of women has passed the point of no return … women from all over the world, especially in the Middle East, will never be silent again”.
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