Dina Ghalibaf, an Iranian journalist and student, was arrested on Tuesday, April 16, after publicly sharing her experience of being sexually assaulted by the “morality police.”
On Monday, she posted on social media about her detention by the so-called “morality” police at a metro station in Tehran. The following day, security forces raided Dina’s residence and detained her, with her social media accounts subsequently suspended.
"Yesterday at the Sadeghiyeh metro station, when I insisted that I have the right to use the subway since I pay taxes, I was violently taken to a room and subjected to electric shocks. I was handcuffed, and one of the officers sexually assaulted me,” Ghalibaf wrote on X.
“The police officer was speaking in the most disgusting language and mocking Jina [Mahsa Amini] and women. While I was handcuffed, he put his hand on my face and started caressing it,” she wrote.
The so-called “morality police” officers are responsible for enforcing discriminatory dress code regulations in Iran. They are frequently reported for physically harassing women, resorting to slapping, beating with batons, and forcing them into police vans, all because of how they are dressed.
Last year, Dina was reportedly summoned by her university's disciplinary committee for participating in a student protest against the execution of protesters in Iran.
“In 2019, I started studying political science at Shahid Beheshti University, but that university was not the home I thought it would be. I was banned from continuing my studies by the order of the disciplinary committee, or better to say, the dictatorial government,” Dina wrote on her LinkedIn account.