Islamic religious police
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Islamic religious police are official Islamic religious enforcement agencies, often found in Muslim-majority countries, that oversee religious observance and public morality on behalf of national or r
A member of the religious police beating a woman for removing her burqa headpiece in public, Kabul, 2001 (image obtained by the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan)
Iranian Guidance Patrol officers. The Guidance Patrol operates under the Law Enforcement Command of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
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
Islamic religious police
…special autonomy to formally implement its own version of Islamic law, which includes corporal punishment such as flogging for certain offences. The Guidance Patrol (Persian: گشت ارشاد, romanized: Gašt-e Eršād) is the main Islamic religious police, or vice squad, within the Law Enforcement Command of the Islamic…
A Guidance Patrol van parked in front of Mellat Park, Tehran
First vice squad of guidance patrol in Tehran