Iran sets up mental health clinic to ‘treat’ women who refuse to wear hijab
Melanie SwanWed, 13 November 2024 at 11:51 PM SGT3-min read
Protesters from the Stage of Freedom group held a silent performance in London this month in support of an Iranian student who stripped to her underwear to protest against the imposition of the hijab - Joao Daniel Pereira/ZUMA Press Wire/ShutterstockMore
Iranian women who resist wearing the hijab are to be given treatment at a specialist mental health clinic in Tehran.
The centre, called the Clinic for Quitting Hijab Removal, is the Islamic Republic’s latest attempt to quash female dissent that has swept the country since the “Woman, Life, Freedom” uprising in 2022.
Mehri Talebi Darestani, who will run the centre, said it “will be for the scientific and psychological treatment of removing the hijab, specifically for the teenage generation, young adults, and women seeking social and Islamic identity”.