"Every time, you experience severe humiliation and degradation."
What it's like being captured by Iran's morality police ...
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What it's like being captured by Iran's morality police ...
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00:00I got arrested by the morality police three times when I was living in Iran.
00:04In some cases you might even get accidentally murdered because you're not wearing a hijab.
00:16Every time you experience severe humiliation and degradation
00:24and you feel like you have no one to help you, to support you.
00:29At the entrance to every single university there's morality police.
00:33They check your hijab before entering the university if it's not appropriate enough.
00:37At best case they will not let you in.
00:40At worst case they can arrest you, take you to custody and all of that.
00:59The terrorist and illegitimate Islamic regime in Iran gives them the right to walk up to any person they see
01:17who they feel isn't wearing proper hijab and tell them to wear the hijab, arrest them, beat them, murder them, you name it.
01:27It gives them the authority to drag innocent people away just because they're not wearing proper hijab.
01:36I was taken by the morality police, gashta ershad, how we call them.
01:41Because my pants weren't wide enough, they were tight so you could see my ankle.
01:49They take you for the weirdest reasons, your nail colour, your hijab, your clothing, anything.
01:58If they just feel like taking you, they will take you and there is no one who can stop them.
02:02Many of you have been asking me what is the easiest way to get sentenced to more than 10 years of prison in Iran.
02:07Let me show you.
02:08Step one, be a woman.
02:10Step two, go walk in the streets and show your hair.
02:12Once we sit in a central park of the city to drink a coffee with our friends, our university friends.
02:22There were two girls with us and then an officer came to us and asked what is your relationship with these girls.
02:31You cannot have a relationship with opposite gender in the public areas.
02:39And then they asked us to go to education centre to teach them some Islamic values.
02:49The first time I was captured with the morality police in Iran, I was 20 years old coming back from the university.
02:57They pulled me into the van. I asked other people for help and nobody helped me because they were so afraid of them.
03:06And when we were around 15 people, they took us to a police station and they made us to have photographs with our names on a board like real criminals.
03:24And it was a very bad feeling. A lot of girls were crying there.
03:54This picture makes me so happy, but this, this is Iran.
04:2440 years ago. I know it's hard to believe, but this is literally how we used to dress.
04:30This, this is Iran now.
04:33What I really need people to understand is that what's happening in Iran right now
04:37is not a fight against religion. It is not a fight against Islam. It is a fight for freedom.