'Mother was Whipped while I was also beaten on the road. Don't trust the Iran government, Morality police abolished to stop Protests', Says Protestors

'They (morality police) caught me near the metro station, started beating me. I had gotten piercings, according to them it was un-Islamic. They said that I am not even dressed properly, and they kept beating me.

Donya Fard, a 26-year-old Iranian woman, starts crying nervously while telling this. She says- 'My mother was also taken to jail, it was called a re-education center. There they used to beat her every day, they even used to whip her.

Similar is the experience of Paradis Mehdavi. She says- 'This is about the year 2007. I was giving a lecture on gender and sexuality at the University of Tehran. Suddenly commotion started, all the students started running here and there.

The Iran Morality Police, also known as the Guidance Police or Gasht-e-Irshad, came storming in. I was forcefully pulled down from the stage, then a hand was raised towards me and there was darkness in front of my eyes.

After this incident, the University of Montana's Provost Paradis Mahdavi was accused of creating a movement against the Iranian government. House arrest was done for 33 days. He eventually had to leave the country.

Iranian journalist living in America, Omed Memarian, says- 'Women are forcefully dragged from the road and put into the van of the Morality Police. These people beat women in the middle of the road and do violence against them. The women keep on screaming and they put them in so-called re-education centres.