Iran arrests female student who stripped to protest harassment

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Iranian authorities arrested a female student on Saturday after she staged a solo protest against harassment by stripping to her underwear outside her university, reports said. The woman, who has not been identified, had been harassed inside Tehran’s prestigious Islamic Azad University by members of the Basij paramilitary force who ripped her headscarf and clothes, according to reports by several news outlets and social media channels outside Iran. For more, FRANCE 24’s Stuart Norval is joined by Kian Habibian, co-founder of “We Are Iranian Students”.

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