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From Our Own Correspondent: The roots of Iran’s anti-hijab protests

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01/10/2022 GMT

The roots of Iran’s anti-hijab protests

BBC World Service - From Our Own Correspondent, The roots of Iran’s anti-hijab protests

Iranians' long-simmering anger over dress code laws; tales from Georgia, Fiji and Ukraine

The anger over a dress code that’s simmered for years in Iran; Georgia's unease with Russian men escaping conscription; Fiji’s hi-tech hopes and the war and wildlife in Ukraine.

Pascale Harter introduces analysis and reportage from Iran, Georgia, Fiji and Ukraine.

Dozens of people have been killed, hundreds injured and many more detained during the wave of protests in Iran against the country’s strict dress code – and against  the way it’s enforced by the so-called ‘morality police’. Rana Rahimpour reflects on the forerunners of these protests, and how the fortunes of Iranian women have changed since the Islamic Revolution of 1979. 

Following Russia’s announcement of ‘partial mobilisation’ for those of fighting age with any military training, hundreds of thousands of Russian men have opted to leave the country. In the Caucasus mountains, the former Soviet republic of Georgia has seen a particularly sharp spike in arrivals. Reyhan Demytrie spoke to some of those in the long queue to get into Georgia and away from military service. 

Fiji might look like an outsider’s idea of a tropical paradise, but life on the islands is definitely not all easy. For young people looking for decent work and a plan for their future, it’s often better to look abroad for opportunities. But Suranjana Tewari found a new generation of workers and entrepreneurs hoping that 21st Century technology and communications might stop the brain drain.

And in the forests of northern Ukraine, the BBC’s Security Correspondent Frank Gardner recently visited a tiny village which seemed adrift in time – with traffic-free roads, brightly-painted log cabins and a forest full of wildlife all around it. Even here, though, the impact of war on the landscape was impossible to ignore. 

Producer: Polly Hope
Production Co-Ordinator: Iona Hammond

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