A woman who fought back after a motorcyclist allegedly sexually harassed her on the street in Iran has been arrested for not wearing a hijab, according to reports.

Footage posted on social media appears to show the motorcyclist trying to touch the woman from behind as he drives past.

The victim, who has been identified as 25-year-old Roshanak Molaei Alishah, can then be seen pushing her attacker to the ground as she berates him for his actions.

Hengaw Human Rights, a Kurdish NGO based in Norway, has since revealed that Roshanak was detained by Iranian security forces.

Separately, Iran’s Center for Human Rights confirmed that she was arrested on November 3 after she posted a clip of the attack on social media.

In the CCTV footage, she appears not to be wearing a head covering made compulsory by the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Iranian journalist and activist Masih Alinejad posted on X: “In this regime’s twisted logic, the attack is not the crime; it’s the fact that her hair was showing while she was doing it.

“So now, instead of punishing the attacker, they are opening a case against her for violating the holy law of compulsory hijab.

Footage posted on social media appears to show the biker touching the woman from behind as he drives past

The woman was identified as 25-year-old Roshanak Molaei Alishah, a Turkish woman

“Because in a country they’ve destroyed, showing a lock of hair is more criminal than attacking a woman.”

Roshanak, whose current fate is unknown, was previously arrested for participating in protests against the killing of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini two years ago, Metro reported.

A spokesman for the Hengaw Human Rights Organization added: “Initially held in Evin Prison, she was later transferred to Qarchak Varamin Prison.”

It comes after an Iranian woman who stripped down to her underwear to protest her hijab was allegedly attacked by police and taken to a mental hospital earlier this month.

The unidentified young woman was seen on video walking around the campus of Tehran Islamic Azad University’s science and research branch before security agents detained her.

She tries to push her assailant off his motorcycle as he drives past

In the CCTV footage, she appears not to be wearing a head covering made compulsory by the Islamic Republic of Iran.

The video, widely shared on social media, shows the woman sitting and pacing back and forth with her arms crossed around the campus in her underwear.

Another clip captured the moment she was detained by security forces and forcibly taken into a car.

University spokesman Amir Mahjoub confirmed X’s arrest, saying: “Following an indecent act by a student from the university’s science and research branch, campus security intervened and handed the individual over to law enforcement.

“The motives and reasons behind the student’s actions are currently under investigation.”

According to Reuters, Mahjoub also added that: “at the police station, … it was found that she was under severe mental pressure and had a mental disorder.”

But some social media users suggested the woman’s action was a deliberate protest.

“For most women, being … in underwear in public is one of their worst nightmares, … This is a reaction to (authorities’) stupid insistence on mandatory hijab,” said one user on X , in a comment accompanying the video.

An unidentified female student has been arrested in Iran after she was seen walking around in her underwear on the campus of the Islamic Azad University in Tehran.

The brave act was an apparent protest against the country’s strict Islamic dress code

The student reportedly suffered serious injuries from the assault during her arrest

The student reportedly suffered serious injuries from the attack during her arrest, Iran International reported, citing a newsletter by the Amir Kabir student group.

The student was said to have been “stripped after being harassed for not wearing a headscarf and having her clothes torn by security forces”.

“It appears that blood stains from the female student were seen on the tires of the car,” the newsletter said, adding that her head was hit by either the car door or a pole, causing profuse bleeding.

The fate of the woman was not known, but the mass circulation daily Hamshahri said on its website: “An informed source said that … the perpetrator of this fact has serious mental problems and, after investigations, will most likely be transferred to -a mental hospital’.

These claims, however, have not yet been confirmed.

A growing number of women have defied authorities by shedding their veils following nationwide protests following the September 2022 death of a young Iranian Kurdish woman in moral police custody for allegedly violating hijab rules.

Mahsa Amini, 22, died after being caught by the moral police for not wearing her hijab properly.

Her death led to mass protests known as “Women”. life, freedom’ which lasted for months in the country.

A year later, in October 2023, an Iranian teenager named Armita Geravand was injured in a suspicious incident on the Tehran subway while not wearing a head covering.

She later died in hospital after falling into a coma.