![Why Morality Policing Should be Proscribed in All Nations](https://www.jurist.org/commentary/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2022/10/Iran_Protests_52383779726.jpg)
On September 16, 2022, Iran’s Basij Resistance Force, a volunteer paramilitary organization that operates under the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, arrested Mahsa Amini for her refusal to comply with the country’s headscarf requirement, an alleged breach of its public morality code. Reports surfaced that the Basij severely beat Amini for resisting an officer’s insults, after which Amini [...]