morality police

English

Noun

morality police (uncountable)

1. A police force tasked with enforcing a specific moral code, especially a religious one.
   • 2022 September 30, Mahsa Alimardani, Kendra Albert, Afsaneh Rigot, “Big Tech Should Support the Iranian People, Not the Regime”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     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.

   • 2022 December 4, Mallika Soni, “Iran abolishes controversial morality police amid huge anti-hijab unrest: Report”, in Hindustan Times‎^[2]:

     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.

Related terms

• moral police

Translations

police enforcing moral code

• Danish: moralpoliti n
• Dutch: zedenpolitie (nl) f
• Finnish: moraalipoliisi
• French: police des mœurs (fr) f
• German: Sittenpolizei (de) f
• Hungarian: erkölcsrendőrség
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: moralpoliti n

• Polish: policja moralności f, policja obyczajowa f
• Russian: поли́ция нра́вов f (polícija nrávov)
• Swedish: moralpolis c, sedlighetspolis (sv) c