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DateFrom July 21, 1401
LocationIran
TypeSocial movement

Hijab, No Hijab is a campaign that was implemented on 21 July 1401 to oppose the mandatory hijab in Iran. This campaign was held at the same time as Hijab and Chastity Day in Iran's official calendar, during which the hashtag "Hijab, Bi-Hijab" became widespread in Persian language social networks.

In this campaign, young women and girls in different cities of Iran took off their headscarves or shawls and walked without hijab on the boulevards of their cities, and they made videos or photos of this and shared them on virtual networks. In these videos, they chanted "No scarf, no head". Some of the women participating in this campaign talked about being accompanied by their mothers, wives or male family members in opposing the mandatory hijab.

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The "Hijab, No Hijab" campaign was launched after Ali Khamenei said on the 7th of July: "The Lord of 1401 is the same as the Lord of 1360, and we must try to set ourselves as examples of divine traditions so that the result is progress and victory." Khamenei's statements were accompanied by various speculations, one of which was the government's decision to increase the pressure on citizens, especially women, in the manner of the 60s, to deal violently with a cover different from that of the Islamic Republic.

In the weeks leading up to this campaign, police forces closed some cafes and restaurants and arrested the female customers of those shops for "bad hijab". Also, some officials asked the employees of the public transport fleet, government offices and banks not to provide services to women without veils. In this regard, a camp named "Tir 21" was formed, which was supposed to follow up on the improvement of the hijab situation by communicating the indicators of chastity and hijab to the institutions and monitoring their implementation until the 21st of July. The government's treatment of Iranian citizens intensified due to the type of cover, while in the 2017 report of the Iranian Parliament Research Center, the guidance patrol was mentioned as "unsuccessful experience" and "low impact".

On July 20, a group of women's rights activists published a statement entitled "No means no, this time not to the mandatory hijab" and announced that the naming of July 21 as "Chastity and Hijab" day is only an excuse to mark the new oppression of more people and especially Iranian women. they did Critics and activists against the mandatory hijab see the government's increasing efforts to enforce the hijab as part of a broader crackdown on the opposition amid intensifying domestic discontent over economic problems and increasing Western pressure on Iran over its disputed nuclear program.

reactions

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After many cyberspace users supported the hashtag "hijab, no hijab" and published pictures of women expressing their opposition to mandatory hijab in the streets of different cities of Iran, Ahmad Vahidi, the Minister of Interior of the Islamic Republic, asked cyberspace users to be influenced by this. Do not campaign. Masoud Satayshi, the spokesman of Iran's judiciary, also described the opposition to the mandatory hijab as an "enemy's" attempt to "instill indecency and indecency in society." Mohammad Hassan Qadiri Abianeh, a member of the second and third terms of the Expediency Council and the director of the Islamic World Elite Association, defended the performance of the guidance patrol and made the claim that "wearing hijab makes other women unattractive" and said: "Because they are women, they do not understand that showing off and grooming themselves causes It becomes the sexual stimulation of others.

Fars News Agency downplayed this protest movement and called it "an attempt by the counter-revolution to promote promiscuity and promiscuity in Iran" and claimed that its hashtag was not trending on Persian Twitter. According to the trendsmap website, the hashtag #Hijab_without_Hijab was used in more than 76,000 tweets worldwide on July 20th and 21st, and it was the second most popular tag in Iran on the Iranian Tagminer website from the evening of July 21st.

Also, 14 religious thinkers condemned the mandatory hijab in a statement.

Arrests

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So far, a number of women participating in the hijab campaign have been arrested by the security agencies without their hijab. Sepideh Reshnu, Suri Babaei Chegini, Melika Karagozlu and Nazi Zandieh are among those arrested.