Source JP: The UN said that this is "gender discrimination designed to bring the women of Iran into complete submission."
September marks the one-year anniversary of the death of Mahsa Amini, a young Kurdish woman who was caught in Iran without a head covering and was beaten by police, ultimately succumbing to her wounds. Her death ignited widespread protests in the country during which many women and girls removed their head coverings in public, in violation of the laws of modesty. 

The Regime in Iran crackdown on protesters with great violence that included mass executions of demonstrators, and now the administration is working to increase the punishment for violating Hijab laws.

“The draft law could be described as a form of gender apartheid, as authorities appear to be governing through systemic discrimination with the intention of suppressing women and girls into total submission,” the UN statement said.

This law that was recently voted on by the Regime's parliament in recent weeks will sentence women caught in public spaces without a necessary head covering five to ten years imprisonment. Along with this, it will be possible to impose a fine of up to 360 million Rials (about 8,500 dollars). So far, this offense has resulted in prison sentences of a few days to two months and a fine of 50-500 thousand Rials.