The Iranian government is planning to use facial recognition technology on public transport to identify women who are not complying with a strict new law on wearing the hijab, as the regime continues its increasingly punitive crackdown on women’s dress.
Iran’s Headquarters for Promoting Virtue and Preventing Vice, Mohammad Golpayegani, announced that the government was planning to use surveillance technology against women in public places following a new decree signed by the country’s president Raisi, on restricting women’s clothing.
The decree signed on 15 August, which sparked countrywide protests by women who posted videos of themselves on social media with their heads uncovered on streets and on buses and trains.
In recent weeks, the Iranian authorities have responded with a spate of arrests, detentions and forced confessions on television.
Source: IMFAT