The new round of suppressive plans under the pretext of Hijab (veil) reached the universities. The Ministry of Education and Sciences has obliged universities to form committees to handle women’s veiling.
In a directive entitled, “Protection of veiling and virtue,” the ministry instructed all universities to prepare their plans focusing on three fields of education, guidance and dealing with the violators and report every three months on their measures to the Secretariat of Protection of Virtue and Veiling in Universities, in the Ministry of Education and Sciences. (State-run Mehr news agency – August 7, 2016)
