[RUDAW.NET] Women rights activists in Kurdistan region have strongly condemned the apparent public harassment of a woman in Sulaimani which was caught on tape and last week went viral on the Internet.The video shows a young woman in blue jeans and brown blouse surrounded by a group of people, mostly men, who apparently harass her for not wearing a hijab, the Muslim headscarf, during closing days of Ramadan.
Angry protesters took to Facebook to denounce the incident and express solidarity with the woman who later was identified as an Arab visitor to the Kurdistan Region.
“It is utterly shameful to see a woman being publically harassed in a Kurdish city while no legal actions are taken to punish violators,” Kurdish activist and author Chilura Hardi wrote in an article posted on her Facebook page Tuesday.