A female student who stripped to her underwear outside her university in Iran, in what students and rights groups say was a protest against the country’s strict Islamic dress code, has reportedly been detained. CNN reported that the students, a mother of two, has been detained. A video shared by rights group Amnesty International shows the woman seated outside the university in her underwear and with her hair uncovered.

She gestures toward fellow students, many of whom are female and wearing headscarves, before strolling around the premises. Another video shows her walking down a road, in a state of undress, before a group of men surround her, bundle her into a car, and drive away.

Amnesty said on Saturday that the woman had been “violently arrested” after she protested the “abusive enforcement” of a dress code at Tehran’s Islamic Azad University. The woman had previously been harassed by members of Basij, an Iranian volunteer paramilitary group, inside the university grounds, an Iranian student social media channel, the Amir Kabir newsletter. It claimed that members of the force had ripped her headscarf and tore her clothes.

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Citing eyewitnesses, state-run Fars news agency reported that the student took off her clothes after two security personnel “calmly talked” to her and warned her about flouting the dress code. The university’s public relations director said the woman was suffering from mental health issues.

CNBC-TV18 could not independently verify the report. Meanwhile, Mai Sato, the UN Special reporter on Islamic Republic of Iran, said on X that she would be “monitoring this incident closely, including the authorities’ response.”

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Headscarfs are mandatory in public for women under Iran’s strict laws. Iranian women can be subjected to harsh punishments, even for minor infractions. Protests erupted across Iran in 2022 against the dress code following the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman who died in the custody of the morality police after being arrested for allegedly not wearing her headscarf properly.

The subsequent violent crackdown by the Iranian regime killed hundreds of people, reports said. Since then, many Iranian women have protested by removing their headscarves in public. Amnesty called for the immediate and unconditional release of the Azad University student and demanded she be given access to her family and lawyer.