A source told the BBC police shot at Arezoo Badri's car before targeting her directly.

A mother of two has been left paraplegic after being shot by Iranian police over an alleged violation of the country’s strict hijab rules, a source with knowledge of the case has told the BBC.

“She is paralysed from the waist down, and doctors have said it will take months to determine whether she will be permanently paraplegic or not.”

Arezoo Badri, 31, was driving home with her sister in the northern city of Noor on 22 July when police attempted to pull her over to confiscate her car.

The driver did not comply with the order to stop, prompting the officers to shoot, the police commander in Noor told Iran’s state-run news agency, without naming Ms Badri.

The incident comes after Iranian police announced a clampdown on women defying the nation’s compulsory dress code.

  • TechNerdWizard42@lemmy.worldEnglish
    753·
    3 months ago

    So much worse than being shot at randomly by police or even just in your own home when they bust in by mistake like they do in the USA. At least in America you have the freedom to be murdered or disabled by police for no reason at all, not just because of what you’re wearing. Freedom.

      • TechNerdWizard42@lemmy.worldEnglish
        217·
        3 months ago

        The topic is being shot by police for no reason.

        The western propaganda is that it is a horror when it happens elsewhere like Iran. It’s just a Tuesday when it happens every fcking day in the USA.

        If you don’t see the topics are the same, you’re brainwashed.

    • assassin_aragorn@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      3 months ago

      Why the fuck do you have to make this about the US? Are you incapable of commenting on atrocities in other countries without a US centric worldview?

      It’s quite an irony, isn’t it? In trying to constantly bring up US problems, you’ve adopted a worldview where only the US matters.

      • Socsa@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        3 months ago

        Don’t you remember being 15? Your view of the world expands from the middle out. When you are that age everything is still contextualized via your personal experience, but you are also just starting to really become aware of all the evil in the world.