The rights of women (or rather, the lack of rights) in Iran have been in focus since the death of Mahsa Amini in September 2022 at the hands of the ‘Morality Police’. Huge protests followed, and the response was a violent crackdown by the authoritarian Islamic government which killed more than 500 people. Iran supposedly disbanded the group in charge of enforcing standards in December 2022 as a response to the protests, but international watchers were sceptical… There are more examples of women continuing to face punishments inside the country for failing to wear a hijab in public, including a decision by Iran’s judiciary on the weekend to give a woman 74 lashes “for violating public morals” by appearing “disgracefully in busy public places of Tehran”. Roya Heshmati has also been ordered to pay a fine for not wearing a hijab, according to her lawyer. After all that, eh…