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morality police en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) A police force tasked with enforcing a specific moral code, especially a religious one.
    • Ms. Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman known as Jina in Kurdish, was stopped on Sept. 13 by the Islamic Republic of Iran’s morality police as she came out of Tehran’s Haghani metro station. 2022 September 30, Mahsa Alimardani, Kendra Albert, Afsaneh Rigot, “Big Tech Should Support the Iranian People, Not the Regime”, in The New York Times:
    • The morality police—known as the Gasht-e Ershad or "Guidance Patrol"—were established under president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, to "spread the culture of modesty and hijab". The units began patrols in 2006. 2022 December 4, Mallika Soni, “Iran abolishes controversial morality police amid huge anti-hijab unrest: Report”, in Hindustan Times:

Relateds

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Translations (13)

de Sittenpolizei (police enforcing moral code) · sv moralpolis (police enforcing moral code) · da moralpoliti (police enforcing moral code) · fr police des mœurs (police enforcing moral code) · nb moralpoliti (police enforcing moral code) · sv sedlighetspolis (police enforcing moral code) · da sædelighedspoliti (police enforcing moral code) · ru поли́ция нра́вов (police enforcing moral code) · pl policja obyczajowa (police enforcing moral code) · hu erkölcsrendőrség (police enforcing moral code) · fi moraalipoliisi (police enforcing moral code) · pl policja moralności (police enforcing moral code) · nl zedenpolitie (police enforcing moral code)