THE NEW YORK TIMES
BY HOSSEIN FATEMI
One day I was walking with a female friend in Tehran when she was pulled away by the police and held in one of their offices for a few hours. Her crime? She wasn’t wearing the proper hijab — the head scarf that, in some interpretations of Islam, women must wear whenever they are in the presence of men who are not close relatives. In Iran , the government insists that all women wear it.
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