If you don't wear a hijab, you can be sentenced to death, Iran's new law crosses all limits.

The Iranian government is getting stricter about the hijab. Iran's new purity and hijab law is being criticized by journalists and activists. Under which violators can be given harsh punishments like the death penalty and flogging. The new hijab law was passed in Parliament in September 2023 and was finalized by the Guardian Council a year later.

The law lays down harsh penalties for making the hijab compulsory, including hefty fines, long prison sentences, and bans on employment and education. On Friday, human rights advocate Shadi Sadr described the new law's extreme provisions, including one that gives the judiciary the power to collude with foreign entities to hand out the death penalty to those accused of nudity, veiling, or wearing inappropriate clothing, and sees such acts as "corruption on earth."

Not wearing hijab can result in the death penalty.

According to a report by Fars News affiliated with the Revolutionary Guards Corps, a section of the new hijab and chastity law reads, “Anyone who engages in promoting or advertising nudity, immorality, veiling or inappropriate dress in collaboration with foreign governments, networks, media outlets, groups or organizations hostile to the state, or individuals affiliated with them, or in an organized manner, shall be punished with fourth-degree imprisonment and third-degree fine, unless their offense falls under Article 286 of the Islamic Penal Code.”

Article 286 of the Islamic Penal Code defines 'spreading corruption on earth' as ​​punishable by death. If authorities deem hijab violations to be within this article, it can be punishable by death.

punishment of flogging

The second provision includes flogging as a punishment for not following hijab rules, which will remain in the new law, which targets women, trans individuals, and non-binary people.

Protest by journalists and activists

More than 140 journalists have raised their voices against this harsh law, calling it a violation of civil rights and an attack on freedom of the press. On the other hand, organizations speaking on women's rights are already demanding more stringent sanctions on Iran.

Journalist and women's rights activist Masih Alinejad described the law as a "planned weapon to crush women, silence their voices and end their fight for equality." He said, "This is not a law; it is a weapon of terror."