Iran using drones to spot women without headscarf

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GENEVA: Iran is counting on digital surveillance and the general public to inform on women refusing to put on the necessary headscarf in public, a UN report mentioned Friday.
The findings of the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Islamic Republic of Iran come after it decided final yr that the nation’s theocracy was chargeable for the “physical violence” that led to the dying of Mahsa Amini.
In the report, UN investigators define how Iran more and more depends on digital surveillance. Among the efforts embody Iranian officers deploying “aerial drone surveillance” to monitor women in public locations. At Tehran’s Amirkabir University, authorities have deployed facial recognition cameras and software program to discover out who is just not sporting the hijab. Surveillance cameras on Iran’s main roadways are also believed to be concerned in looking for uncovered women.
The “Nazer” cell phone app supplied by Iranian police permits the general public to report on uncovered women.