Two Iranian women have been handed £170 fines by an Iranian court for not wearing their compulsory hijabs properly while in public.
One judicial official, quoted in Iranian paper Arman, said: "In recent days several cases have been filed in the court for bad hijabs and, in two of them, the accused were sentences to pay 9 millions rials (£170) in cash."
Women in Iran, including foreign visitors to the country, are required by law to wear a hijab while out in public.
This law was brought in after the 1979 revolution, but is often interpreted loosely - with many women in the capital and across the country preferring to wear looser-fitting headscarves that reveal more of the head, and Western-style clothes, including tight jeans and high heels.
However, police still enforce the law, and interfere in people's private lives to preserve Iranian values.
Earlier this month the chief of Iran's traffic police said that women could have their cars impounded if they are caught driving with a poorly-fixed veil.
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And today, the captain of the Iranian women's football team, Niloufar Ardalan, announced that she will miss the Asian Cup tournament, because her husband confiscated her passport in a domestic argument over her missing their son's first day at school.
Niloufar Ardalan, left, will reportedly miss playing for her country in the Asian Cup tournament because her husband confiscated her passport (AP)
Under Iranian law, husbands have the right to stop their wives from travelling outside the country.
In an Instagram post, Ardalan said that her case was being exaggerated, but confirmed that she wouldn't be travelling to Malaysia for the tournament, and called for laws on married women's travel to be relaxed.
