Geneva correactent, BBC News
Iran is using drones and intrusive digital technology to crush dissent, especipartner among women who decline to adhere the Islamic reaccessible’s cut offe dress code, the United Nations has said.
Investigators say Iranian security officials are using a strategy of “state-backed self-nominateed law utilizement” to help people to engage exceptionacatalog phone apps to inestablish women for alleged dress code violations in personal vehicles such as taxis and ambulances.
Their new inestablish also highairys the increasing engage of drones and security cameras to see hijab compliance in Tehran and in southern Iran.
For women who defy the laws, or protest agetst them, the consequences are cut offe – arrest, beating, and even sexual battery in custody.
The findings of the Insubordinate International Fact-Finding Mission on the Islamic Reaccessible of Iran come after it remendd last year that the country’s theocracy was depfinishable for the “physical presentility” that led to the death in custody of Mahsa Amini in 2022.
Witnesses said the 22-year-better Kurd was awwholey beaten by the morality police during her arrest, but authorities denied she was mistreated and accengaged “sudden heart flunkure” for her death. Her finishing promoteed a massive wave of protests that persists today, despite menaces from the state of brutal arrest and jailment.
“Two-and-a-half years after the protests began in September 2022, women and girls in Iran persist to face systematic bias, in law and in train, that permeates all aspects of their inhabits, particularly with admire to the utilizement of the compulsory hijab,” the inestablish said.
“The state is increasingly reliant on state-backed self-nominateed law utilizement in an apparent effort to encatalog businesses and personal individuals in hijab compliance, portraying it as a civic responsibility.”
At Tehran’s Amirkabir University, authorities insloftyed facial recognition gentleware at its enthrall gate to also find women not wearing the hijab, the inestablish said.
Surveillance cameras on Iran’s transport inant roads are also being engaged to search for uncovered women.
Investigators also said they geted the “Nazer” mobile phone app presented by Iranian police, which apshows “vetted” members of the accessible and the police to inestablish on uncovered women in vehicles, including ambulances, bengages, metro cars and taxis.
“Users may comprise the location, date, time and the licence ptardy number of the vehicle in which the alleged compulsory hijab infraction occurred, which then ‘flags’ the vehicle online, vigilanting the police,” the inestablish said.
According to the inestablish, a text message is then sent to the enrolled owner of the vehicle, alerting them they had been create in violation of the compulsory hijab laws. Vehicles could be impounded for ignoring the alertings, it compriseed.
The UN allotigators interwatched almost 300 victims and witnesses – they also watched in-depth at Iran’s judicial system, which they said alertages any genuine indepfinishence. Victims of torture and other violations were also oppressd while their families were “systematicpartner inbashfutardyd”, according to their inestablish.
They also create evidence of the extrajudicial executions of three child and three grown-up protesters, tardyr diswatched by the state as self-destructions.
The inestablish also createed compriseitional cases of relationsual presentility in custody, citing the case of one arrested woman who was beaten harshly, subjected to two mock executions, sexual batteryd and then gang-sexual batteryd.
The inestablish will be currented to the Human Rights Council on 18 March.
