News Center- Students of the University of Tehran have protested the compulsory hijab in Iran for several weeks. On November 4, some students removed their headscarves at the graduation ceremony to protest the compulsory hijab. Many women, including activists, artists, sportswomen, and members of NGOs, have announced their support with the students struggling against the compulsory veiling regulation that requires Iranian women to wear a hijab covering their hair and body in public.

“The ban should be removed”

Women supporting the female students released a six-point statement. The statement is as follows;

“*None of the women who removed their headscarves in front of Tehran University should be threatened, persecuted, or harassed by security and the judiciary.

* Anti-women laws, forcing women to wear headscarves, causing gender discrimination in all areas should be repealed immediately.

* All kinds of attacks and violence against women, in the name of honor, should be considered crimes and the perpetrators shouldn’t go unpunished.

*All smear campaigns carried out through the media, schools, and mosques should be banned. The activities of the powers supporting the system, particularly at universities, which are the main factors in imposing these views on society, should be eliminated.

* Independent students, independent associations, institutions, and organizations should have the right to demand women's rights by establishing women's rights committees.

* The activists, who are held in prison for protesting the compulsory hijab regulation, should be immediately and unconditionally released. No legal processing should be started against them and their supporters.”

Signatories of the statement are the Kermanshah Electrical and Metal Workers Union, Independent Student Group of the University of Isfahan, Painters Syndicate of Alborz, students of the Islamic Azad University Najafabad Branch, students from Tehran University of Arts, students of the Allameh Tabataba'i University, a group of martial arts athletes in Kermanshah, a group of unemployed graduates of the Razi University in Kermanshah, a group of construction workers, housewives in Sanandaj and social activists in Kamyaran.