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morality police

noun

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  1. 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.
    • 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.

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