After Long Continuing Protests, Iran To Review Hijab Law

Tehran: On Saturday, Iran said it is reviewing a decades-old law that requires women to cover their heads, as it struggles to control more than two months of protests linked to the dress code.

Protests have swept Iran since the September 16 death in custody of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian of Kurdish origin arrested by the morality police for allegedly flouting the sharia-based law.

Demonstrators have burned their head coverings and shouted anti-government slogans. Since Mahsa Amini’s death, a growing number of women have not been observing hijab, particularly in Tehran’s fashionable north.