News Center- 100 sociologists and university professors in Iran have published a joint statement, condemning Iran’s “Law on Protecting the Family through the Promotion of the Culture of Chastity and Hijab”.

The law will promote violence and social insecurity and violate human rights, especially women’s rights, if it comes into force.

“This law criminalizes society and promotes violence against people, especially women, political polarization and hate speech in society and intensifies socio-political crises,” the statement said.

The signatories of the statement called on Iranian authorities to withdraw the law to end “the ongoing discrimination and harassment against people, especially women.”

 Iran’s new compulsory veiling law imposes the death penalty, flogging, prison terms and other severe penalties against women and girls, who defy compulsory veiling.  The law was drafted in May 2023, after the “Jin, Jiyan, Azadi” uprising that sparked in the country following the killing of Jina Mahsa Amini in September 2022.

The law was set to come into force on December 13, 2024; however, the implementation of the new compulsory veiling law was suspended by the Supreme National Security Council of Iran on Saturday.