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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
50 women barred from flying for un-Islamic dress
2007-05-14
Iranian police have prevented 50 women from boarding flights in their ongoing crackdown on dress styles deemed to be out of line with Islamic dress rules, officials said on Sunday. “Fifty badly-veiled women were prevented from boarding domestic and international flights for failing to respect Islamic dress rules,” said the head of airport police Mamoud Bot-Shekane, according to the Fars news agency.

He said the airport police had handed out “17,135 warnings to women who are not fully respecting the Islamic veil and 850 of them have had to make a written pledge to respect the veil more.” “Out of these, the cases of 80 women and 50 men have been sent to the judicial authorities,” he added.
Posted by:Fred

#1  See also WAFF.com > IRAN'S ECONOMIC CRISIS article.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2007-05-14 03:30  

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