Iranian authorities on Saturday arrested a student who stripped to her underclothes outside Tehran's Islamic Azad University in an apparent protest against the country's strict Islamic dress code. Video recordings showed authorities taking the woman away in a car.
This came after members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' paramilitary force reportedly ripped her headscarf and clothes for wearing "inappropriate clothes" in class. State-run Fars news agency said security personnel had "calmly" talked to her.
Identified by the French and German media as Ahoo Daryaei, the university said that the student suffered from mental health issues, and following her "indecent act," campus security handed her over to law enforcement.
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