Iran utilizing surveillance to focus on girls violating headband legislation: UN report

Iran’s mission to the UN in New York didn’t instantly reply to a request for touch upon the findings of the 20-page report, by which UN investigators define how Iran more and more depends on digital surveillance.

Among the many efforts embody Iranian officers deploying “aerial drone surveillance” to watch girls in public locations. At Tehran’s Amirkabir College, authorities additionally put in facial recognition software program at its entrance gate to additionally discover girls not carrying the hijab, it stated.

Surveillance cameras on Iran’s main roadways are also believed to be concerned in trying to find uncovered girls.

UN investigators stated they obtained the ‘Nazer’ cell phone app provided by Iranian police, which permits the general public to report on uncovered girls in automobiles, together with ambulances, buses, metro vehicles and taxis.

“Customers might add the placement, date, time and the license plate variety of the automobile by which the alleged obligatory hijab infraction occurred, which then flags the automobile on-line, alerting the police,” the report stated.

“It then triggers a textual content message (in real-time) to the registered proprietor of the automobile, warning them that they’d been present in violation of the obligatory hijab legal guidelines, and that their automobiles could be impounded for ignoring these warnings.”