Iranian woman detained over undressing is released without charge – BBC News

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  4. Wow she survived? I was sure that they would have killed her. She is very lucky.

  5. I wonder what happen to the women that do similar things but dont go viral on social media.

  6. I actually did not see that coming. I have expected her to be shipped to Russia and have a unfortunate accident with a window and a high building.

  7. And as the world focuses on the next thing, she might just disappear. Authocrats are petty.
    I feel like my countries embassy in Iran should find her and offer asylum.

  8. Just waiting for the fervor to lessen … then off to the bone saws.

  11. Phew. I thought those bastards would kill her.

    So glad to hear she’s alive and hopefully well.

  12. Revolts arent ideal while you’re fighting Israel

  13. That’s good news. Watching the video was really unsettling, and not knowing the language, I could tell if the females who recorded the event were mocking the girl or not.

    I hope for her and her family to have peace and healing,

  15. Imagine living in 2024 with the mindset of a caveman

  16. “Iranian woman who undressed after being assaulted, and was then assaulted again and detained, released without charge” – There fixed that for ya BBC

  17. Good job everybody who brought this to the spot lights alse this woman wouldn’t be alive. This time the Media and peoples voices kept her alive.

  18. Incredible. Now get her out of that country to safety.

  19. Who’s reporting this though, can we get some confirmation that she’s okay?

  21. > A spokesperson for the Iranian judiciary said **the woman had been treated in hospital** and returned to her family.

    I wonder whether she was treated with uranium or a lobotomy.

  22. I saw Jackson Hinkle posting about this saying she was “mentally ill” and that the West is touting about a mentally ill person.

    The article mentions she was hospitalized in a psychiatric ward and then released. The fact that this Twitter far right guy who wishes Russia would just conquer the world has the same narrative as the Iranian regime says something.

  24. This is not true. She is still forcefully in a Psych ward without a lawyer. I‘m Iranian and happy to answer any question. But BBC time and time proved to be aligned with Islamic Regim‘s propaganda

  26. ARTICLE TEXT

    An Iranian woman will not face charges after she stripped to her underwear in an apparent anti-hijab protest at a university in Tehran, Iranian authorities say.

    Earlier in November, video went viral on social media capturing the moment the woman, named by BBC Persian as Ahoo Daryaei, undressed on a university campus before being forcibly detained.

    A spokesperson for the Iranian judiciary said the woman had been treated in hospital and returned to her family.

    Her detention drew international condemnation, with Amnesty International among those calling for her immediate and unconditional release.

    “Considering that she was sent to the hospital, and it was found that she was ill, she was handed over to her family… and no judicial case has been filed against her,” judiciary spokesman Asghar Jahangir said on Tuesday.

    A student movement organisation first published the video of the arrest, reporting that Ms Daryaei had an altercation with security agents over not wearing a headscarf, leading to her undressing during the scuffle.

    Iranian authorities at the time said Ms Daryaei was “sick” and had been taken to a psychiatric ward.

    It is not the first time Iranian authorities have branded a woman protesting compulsory hijab laws with a mental illness.

    Following Ms Daryaei’s arrest, Iranian activists on social media condemned what they said was a pattern of diagnosing women’s right activists.

    One woman, who fled Iran for Canada in 2018, said her family had been pressured by the Iranian regime to declare her mentally ill.

    “My family didn’t do it, but many families under pressure do, thinking it’s the best way to protect their loved ones. This is how the Islamic Republic tries to discredit women, by questioning their mental health,” said Azam Jangravi, who fled after being sentenced to three years in prison for removing her headscarf during a protest.

    It became mandatory for women in Iran to cover their hair and dress modestly following the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

    Two years ago, Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini died in police custody after being detained for not wearing hijab “properly”.

    More than 500 people were reportedly killed during months of nationwide protests that erupted in the aftermath of her death.

  27. “Oh no people are watching moreso than usual? Release her” or something like that

  28. In a stunning move, Iran did not immediately kill this innocent person.

  30. The Iranian government understands how important this message is to send to the west.

    She would be deemed mentally ill. This is not an improvement for women’s rights in Iran.

  31. She was released because there is too much international attention on her now and doing anything to her will be bad publicity for the regime, for NOW. If I were to know her, I would tell her to seek asylum anywhere else out of Iran, she may not be safe as regimes don’t just forget how you humiliated them.

  32. A miracle. Like others, I honestly thought religious zealots would have killed her that very day for what she had done but that did not happen and she was released without charge.

  33. This woman has been on my mind a lot recently. I’m shocked and very thrilled to see this news.

  35. I want to hear what she has to say from her own face about this.

  36. She has the chance to start a movement.
    Because they can not touch her or her family/friends without the media noticing.

  37. If the whole world was paying attention, this could’ve ended very differently for her. Glad she’s out though…

  38. As per husband she is mentally unfit and reports from doctors were submitted about her on going medical treatment

  39. Spoiled, sheltered mommy and daddy funded ivy leaguers take note- this is what real courage looks like- not pretend, performative antisemitism for all your cool friends.

  40. I just realized something. Maybe it’s because I’m high. Women dressed all the same are anonymous. Covered faceless women are assaulted everyday. And they remain nameless. Think about how easy it is to snatch a woman from the street, drag her into an alley, shove her back out onto the street, and all anyone sees is a figure in black clothes. Not an identifiable woman who’d just been brutalized. They have no witness.

    To my point….what better way to ask for help than to remove your nameless faceless shadow. She had to become somebody.

  41. This does put a smile on my face

    I just hope she wasn’t tortured while detained.

  42. They are lying or they tortured her so bad that she is left a shell of herself

  43. Settle down guys. She’ll be detained later for trumped up charges. The PR storm was too high for this incident but I doubt her miserable excuse for a government will allow no consequences

  44. Watch now she suddenly decides to kill herself by jumping off a building or hanging…! 😡😢

  46. This is unbelievable. Faith in humanity is one step closer to being restored.

  47. As I said, no way they would kill her, they cannot afford a riot when things are this tense for them.

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