Moral Policing

A special squad will be set up in Karnataka to check moral policing, especially in Mangaluru, the district headquarters of Dakshina Kannada district, Karnataka Home Minister G Parameshwara said on Tuesday.

There is no question of compromise on the issue of protecting the harmony and secular heritage of Karnataka, Mr Siddaramaiah said as he asserted that hate politics will not be tolerated and the environment of fear would be eradicated.

Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Saturday said that strict action will be taken against any organization that disturbs peace and harmony in the state.

In an alleged case of moral policing, a student was assaulted by a group of right-wing activists for talking to a girl at Puttur in Dakshina Kannada district of Karnataka, police said.

A growing number of Iranian women have been ditching their veils since the death of a 22-year-old Kurdish woman in the custody of the morality police last September. Mahsa Amini had been detained for allegedly violating the hijab rule.

Known for controversial statements, Kailash Vijayvargiya last month claimed that after Independence and Partition, whatever was left of India constituted a "Hindu Rashtra".

Leader of Opposition Siddaramaiah today wondered how moral policing in Karnataka will stop if Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai gives "provocative statements".

In a case of moral policing, two young students were allegedly assaulted by a group of five people in front of a cinema theatre at Sullia in Dakshina Kannada district, police sources said on Friday.

Many Iranian workers went on strike and students boycotted classes Wednesday, rights groups said, as a former president offered public support for the protests sparked by Mahsa Amini's death.

Campaigners backing Iran's protest movement on Monday dismissed a claim that the Islamic republic is disbanding its notorious morality police, insisting there was no change to its restrictive dress rules for women.

Indonesia is expected to ratify sweeping changes to its criminal code on Tuesday, senior officials confirmed, in a legal overhaul that critics say could wind back hard-won democratic freedoms and police morality in the Southeast Asian nation.

Iranians in Iraq expressed scepticism at reports Sunday that Tehran has abolished its feared morality police, a force indelibly associated with months of protests in the Islamic republic.

Iran has scrapped its morality police units after more than two months of protests triggered by the arrest of Mahsa Amini for allegedly violating the country's strict female dress code, local media say.

She has been vocal about the issues women in Iran are facing and her encounter with the "morality police" in the country.

More than 300 people have been killed in Iran since protests erupted over the death in morality police custody of Mahsa Amini on September 16, a Revolutionary Guards general said Tuesday.

A special squad will be set up in Karnataka to check moral policing, especially in Mangaluru, the district headquarters of Dakshina Kannada district, Karnataka Home Minister G Parameshwara said on Tuesday.

There is no question of compromise on the issue of protecting the harmony and secular heritage of Karnataka, Mr Siddaramaiah said as he asserted that hate politics will not be tolerated and the environment of fear would be eradicated.

Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Saturday said that strict action will be taken against any organization that disturbs peace and harmony in the state.

In an alleged case of moral policing, a student was assaulted by a group of right-wing activists for talking to a girl at Puttur in Dakshina Kannada district of Karnataka, police said.

A growing number of Iranian women have been ditching their veils since the death of a 22-year-old Kurdish woman in the custody of the morality police last September. Mahsa Amini had been detained for allegedly violating the hijab rule.

Known for controversial statements, Kailash Vijayvargiya last month claimed that after Independence and Partition, whatever was left of India constituted a "Hindu Rashtra".

Leader of Opposition Siddaramaiah today wondered how moral policing in Karnataka will stop if Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai gives "provocative statements".

In a case of moral policing, two young students were allegedly assaulted by a group of five people in front of a cinema theatre at Sullia in Dakshina Kannada district, police sources said on Friday.

Many Iranian workers went on strike and students boycotted classes Wednesday, rights groups said, as a former president offered public support for the protests sparked by Mahsa Amini's death.

Campaigners backing Iran's protest movement on Monday dismissed a claim that the Islamic republic is disbanding its notorious morality police, insisting there was no change to its restrictive dress rules for women.

Indonesia is expected to ratify sweeping changes to its criminal code on Tuesday, senior officials confirmed, in a legal overhaul that critics say could wind back hard-won democratic freedoms and police morality in the Southeast Asian nation.

Iranians in Iraq expressed scepticism at reports Sunday that Tehran has abolished its feared morality police, a force indelibly associated with months of protests in the Islamic republic.

Iran has scrapped its morality police units after more than two months of protests triggered by the arrest of Mahsa Amini for allegedly violating the country's strict female dress code, local media say.

She has been vocal about the issues women in Iran are facing and her encounter with the "morality police" in the country.

More than 300 people have been killed in Iran since protests erupted over the death in morality police custody of Mahsa Amini on September 16, a Revolutionary Guards general said Tuesday.