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This week, a young woman in Iran publicly stripped to her underwear in protest of strict dress codes and incidents of assault by university security guards at the Islamic Azad University in Tehran. A video of her protest was widely shared on the internet. The unnamed woman was arrested and transferred to a psychiatric hospital. Human rights organizations have called this transfer a “kidnapping” used to silence dissenters and have expressed alarm that she will be subjected to the same torture previously reported by women’s political prisoners held in state-run psychiatric institutions. “Iranian authorities systematically use involuntary psychiatric hospitalisation as a tool to suppress dissent, branding protesters as mentally unstable to undermine their credibility,” commented Hadi Ghaemi, executive director of The Center for Human Rights in Iran. Women in Iran have shown support and admiration for the woman’s act of protest. One university student told The Guardian, “This is what we are fighting for, to have the freedom to choose. We are in awe of her bravery. If it were up to the regime, all of us who protested would be branded as mentally unwell.”
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