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In Islam, the Arabic term for the seclusion of women enjoined by the Koran. It also refers to the modest, covering dress worn by Muslim women when outside their homes and at any time when they are in the presence of men not closely related to them.
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Seventy-three years later, when Ayatollah Khomeini decreed compulsory veiling during the 1979 revolution, tens of thousands of women marched on International Women's Day to protest this counter-revolutionary direction and held sitins against the forced expulsion of women, like Ebadi, from the courts.
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The theologian took part in a seminar in Berlin in April at which he defended the separation of religion from state and rejected compulsory veiling for women.
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After the revolution in 1979, the reverse process of compulsory veiling of all women was imposed in stages.
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