Iran's Attorney General says the country’s morality police will be “abolished” amid ongoing nationwide protests, according to local media.
“The morality police had nothing to do with the Judiciary and the same institution that established it, has now abolished it,” Mohammad Jafar Montazeri was quoted as saying at a religious eventMontazeri, who is not responsible for overseeing the morality police in his role as attorney general, added that the “the judiciary will continue to supervise social behaviors.”
It was unclear if he meant the morality police would be abolished for good or that they would return in some form.Montazeri's brief and unscripted comment came in response to a question about “why the morality police were being shut down,” the outlets reported.Iran’s Interior Ministry and police have not commented on the status of the morality police.
Official state media outlets that attended the event did not report on Montazeri’s comments, signaling that they were not sanctioned by the political establishment., a 22-year-old from Iran’s Kurdistan region, who died in the hospital three days after she had been detained by the morality police in September.
Amini had allegedly failed to fully cover her hair and defied the country’s strict dress codes when she was arrested in Iran’s capital, Tehran. A coroner’s report said in October that Amini had died from multiple organ failure and ruled out blows to the head and body as a cause of her death. Police had said Amini died after she fell ill and slipped into a coma, but her family has said witnesses told them officers beat her. Police have denied this allegation.
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