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A female student stripped to her underwear outside her university in Iran in what some student and rights groups say was a protest against the country’s strict Islamic dress code.
CNN reports that the woman sitting outside the university in her underwear, with her hair uncovered, gestured to her fellow students. Many of the female students were wearing headscarves before strolling around the premises.
Another video shows her walking down a road, still in a state of undress, before a group of men surround her, bundle her in a car and drive away.
On Saturday, Amnesty International said the woman had been “violently arrested” after she protested tye “abusive enforcement” of the dress code at Tehran’s Islamic Azad University.
The woman had been previously harassed by members of the Basij, an Iranian volunteer paramilitary group inside the university, according to the Amir Kabir Newsletter. It claimed members of the task force had ripped her headscarf and torn her clothes.
State-run Fars news agency cited eyewitnesses and reported that the woman took off her clothes after two security personnel “calmly talked” to her and warned her about flouting the dress code.
The university’s public relations director said the woman was suffering from mental health issues.
