Human rights activists are urging the government to release the young woman who was last seen bundled into a car by police.
A female student at a university in Tehran stripped to her underwear in an act of protest after being harassed by campus security officers over her hijab.
In protest to having her clothes torn, she chose to remove her remaining garments, according to an Iranian student social media news channel, the Amir Kabir newsletter and witnesses who spoke to the LondonOfficers forcibly detain student “She angrily yelled at them and took off her trousers – she sat outside the campus for a few minutes and the officer became more aggressive.
“If courage had a face,” one user posted on X with the girl’s picture. “That brave girl is my leader,” another user wrote.Amir Mahjoub, the director of public relations at the university, said that she was transferred to a “police station” and claimed that she was under “severe mental stress and suffering from psychological disorders”.newspaper, affiliated with the university, also claimed, citing “official and unofficial sources” that the student has “severe psychological and mental issues”.
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