A video of two teenage girls being beaten by female members of Iran’s morality police on a Tehran street for allegedly not wearing hijabs has gone viral, in what activists say is the latest example of state-led violence against women.
The video, which was CCTV footage released on Tuesday on social media sites and Iranian news outlets, showed two girls on a street in north Tehran being confronted by three "female agents" of the morality police wearing black niqabs who were seen jumping out of a white van and grabbing the girls.
As one of them resists, she is dragged across the street, with some onlookers filming as the girls are taken into a van.
The surveillance footage was released after the mother of one of the girls issued a complaint with the military police over the treatment of her daughter, according to reports.
