ALBAWABA - Protests erupted inside Kamali Dehghan Girls' School in Karaj, Iran after a female student was physically abused over her head scarf (hijab).
Female students at the Iranian school were seen waving their hijabs in the air after one of their colleagues was attacked for not wearing her hijab, amid the country's tight rules against women and females, and the compulsory hijab rule.
Iranian-American journalist and women's rights activist Masih Alinejad was one of the first figures to post the clip on X. She wrote: "An Iranian schoolgirl being physically attacked by the principal for not wearing hijab. In response, students unite, remove their hijabs, disable cameras, and chant against discriminatory rules. A student who sent the video from Karaj says: enough is enough."
Alinejad reported that the students gathered in the schoolyard and took off their masks, as well as some of them broke the windows and CCTV cameras, chanting against the school officials.
She added that Kamali Dehghan Girls' School is the same school that was attacked with poison gas several times last year.
Iran has been setting strict rules against women across the country, especially in terms of clothes and hijabs. Iran has a private police section called "Guidance Patrol or morality police," which is an Islamic religious police force and vice squad in the Law Enforcement Command of the Islamic Republic of Iran and works to ensure people obey rules and stick to the country's dress code.
Two years ago, an Iranian woman named Mahsa Amini was killed after being attacked by the country's morality police in Tehran for "improperly" wearing the hijab.
Her story sparked nationwide protests where women demonstrated strict dress code and compulsory hijab. Women burnt their hijabs and cut their hair to announce protesting Iranian Islamic rules.
