Guidance Patrol
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The Guidance Patrol or morality police is an Islamic religious police force and vice squad in the Law Enforcement Command of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Its role is to enforce Sharia law as defined
A Guidance Patrol van parked in front of Mellat Park, Tehran
First vice squad of guidance patrol in Tehran
Guidance Patrol officers (right) alongside Iranian Police officers (left)
Death of Mahsa Amini
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On 16 September 2022, 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman Mahsa Amini, also known as Jina Amini, died in a hospital in Tehran, Iran, under suspicious circumstances. The Guidance Patrol, the religious mo
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…sanctions against the Guidance Patrol as well as seven senior leaders of Iran's various security organisations, "for violence against protestors and the death of Mahsa Amini". These include Mohammad Rostami Cheshmeh Gachi, chief of Iran's Morality Police, Haj Ahmad Mirzaei, head of the Tehran division of the Morality Police…
Mahsa Amini
1979 Iranian Women Day's protests against mandatory hijab laws
A sign in a protest in Toronto with the epitaph on Amini's grave in Kurdish that reads "Jina, dear! You will not die. Your name will turn into a symbol."
Amjad Amini, Mahsa Amini's Father