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This Iranian Woman Was Shot And Paralyzed By The Police For Allegedly Violating Iran’s Mandatory Hijab Law

This Iranian woman was shot and paralyzed by the police for allegedly violating Iran’s mandatory hijab law.

Cherry Mohamed

Cherry Mohamed

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This Iranian Woman Was Shot And Paralyzed By The Police For Allegedly Violating Iran’s Mandatory Hijab Law

This Iranian woman was shot and paralyzed by the police for allegedly violating Iran’s mandatory hijab law.

31-year-old Arezoo Badri, a mother of two, was driving her car in Noor city in Iran on July 22 when police attempted to pull her over after they identified her car as being on a list to be confiscated.

In 2023, Iranian authorities said they would start using CCTV to identify women drivers who did not cover their hair and confiscate their vehicles.

It is likely Badri's car had been marked on the list to be confiscated because she had allegedly violated the hijab law multiple times.

Badri allegedly did not comply with the police trying to pull her over, and officers then opened fire, shooting her with a bullet that severely damaged her spinal cord and entered her lung.

Following the shooting, Badri was hospitalized, and the bullet was only removed after 10 days, leaving her paralyzed from the waist down, according to the BBC.

Doctors have said it will take months to determine whether Bardi will be permanently paraplegic or not.

She is now in the intensive care unit and under tight security in a police-owned hospital in Tehran, where her family is only allowed brief visits without their phones, according to sources.

Iranian authorities have justified the shooting, saying that officers are allowed to use firearms when faced with non-compliance.

In 2023, Iran reintroduced the so-called “morality” police after brutally cracking down and ending the mass protests against the death of Mahsa Amini.

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