Protesters in Iran on Sunday called for a three-day strike this week, stepping up pressure on authorities after a prosecutor said the morality police, whose detention of a young woman sparked months of protests, had been halted.
There was no confirmation of the closure from the Interior Ministry, which is responsible for moral policing, and Iranian state media said prosecutor Mohammad Jafar Montazeri was not responsible for overseeing the force.
Senior Iranian officials have repeatedly said Tehran will not change the Islamic republic’s mandatory hijab policy, which requires women to dress modestly and wear headscarves, despite 11 weeks of protests against strict Islamic regulations.
Hundreds of people were killed in protests that erupted in September after the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurdish woman arrested by morality police for breaking hijab rules.
Protesters trying to maintain their defiance of Iran’s clerical rulers called for a three-day economic strike and demonstration in Tehran’s Azadi (Freedom) Square on Wednesday, according to posts shared on Twitter by unverified accounts by Reuters.
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