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Iran's morality police return to the streets

Iranian women make their way along a sidewalk in downtown Tehran, Apr. 26, 2016. [AP Photo]

Iranian authorities Sunday announced the return to the streets of the morality police, which enforce the country's mandatory veiling laws.

The presence of the morality police had largely ceased following the nationwide anti-government protests sparked by the death last year of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in police custody. Amini had been detained by Iran's morality police for allegedly wearing her headscarf too loosely.

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