Iran's Judiciary Chief Vows to Prosecute Unveiled Women Harshly.

Iran's judiciary chief, Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei, has threatened to prosecute women who appear in public unveiled "without mercy". This comes after an Interior Ministry statement reinforced the government's mandatory hijab law. Under Iran's Islamic Sharia law, women are obliged to cover their hair and wear long, loose-fitting clothes. Violators have faced public rebuke, fines or arrest. A growing number of Iranian women have been ditching their veils since the death of a 22-year-old Kurdish woman in the custody of the morality police last September.