Reactions are growing against Iranian regime's punishment of male prisoners by making them walk in public in traditional women's dresses.

A court in the eastern Kurdistan city of Meriwan punished three male prisoners with 'walking on streets in traditional red dress of Kurdish women'. The punishment was most recently imposed on a group of male prisoners on 16 April, causing strong reactions from women and the people of Meriwan who evaluate the punishment as an insult against the Kurdish people and Kurdish women.

The Union of Women in Eastern Kurdistan, YJRK, described the punishment as a policy of insulting the Kurdish people and demanded the penalization of those responsible for the insulting punishment.

Besides women, men are also running a campaign by wearing women's dresses to display their reaction against the punishment which they comment as disrespect against Kurdish traditional dresses and the Kurdish culture. In the scope of the campaign which draws great interest on social media as well as abroad, Kurdish men in Sweden are also taking to streets wearing traditional dresses of Kurdish women.