Moment when a fearless woman fights back and assaults a motorcyclist ‘who sexually harassed her as she drove by’ in Iran… before SHE is arrested ‘for not wearing the hijab’

A woman who fought back after a motorcyclist allegedly sexually harassed her on the streets of 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, identified as Roshanak Molaei Alishah, 25, a Turkish woman, can then be seen pushing her attacker to the ground while berating him for his actions.

The Hengaw Organization for Human Rights, a Norway-based Kurdish NGO, has since revealed that Roshanak has been detained by Iranian security forces.

In addition, the Center for Human Rights in Iran confirmed that she was arrested on November 3 after posting a clip of the attack on social media.

From the CCTV footage, it appears that she is not wearing a head covering mandated by the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Iranian journalist and activist Masih Alinejad wrote on X: ‘In the twisted logic of this regime, it is not the attack that is the crime; it’s the fact that her hair was visible while she did it.

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

“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 the protests against the murder of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini two years ago, Metro reports.

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

It comes after an Iranian woman who stripped to her underwear in protest against the hijab was reportedly attacked by police earlier this month and taken to a psychiatric hospital.

The young, unidentified woman was seen on footage walking around the campus of the science and research department of Tehran’s Islamic Azad University before guards arrested her.

The widely circulated video on social media shows the woman pacing around the campus in her underwear, waving her arms.

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

University spokesperson Amir Mahjoub confirmed the arrest on

‘The motives and underlying reasons for the student’s actions are currently being investigated.’

According to Reuters, Mahjoub also added that: “at the police station… it was determined 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 public in their underwear is one of their worst nightmares, … This is a response to the authorities’ stupid insistence on mandatory hijab,” a user on X said in a comment on the video.

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

It said the student was “stripped naked after being harassed for not wearing a headscarf and having her clothes torn by security forces.”

“The student’s bloodstains were reportedly seen on the tires of the car,” the newsletter said, adding that her head was hit by a car door or pillar, causing heavy bleeding.

The woman’s fate was not known, but mass-market daily Hamshahri said on its website: ‘An informed source said… that the perpetrator of this act has serious psychological problems and that after investigation she will most likely be transferred to a prison. psychiatric hospital’.

However, these claims have not yet been confirmed.

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

Mahsa Amini, 22, died after being picked up by vice squad for not wearing her hijab correctly.

Her death sparked mass protests known as ‘Women’. life, liberty’ that 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 metro while not wearing a head covering.

She later died in hospital after falling into a coma.