Iranian Embassy sent a protest note to Georgian Foreign Ministry

18:50, 17.08.2018

Iranian Embassy in Tbilisi has sent a protest note to the Georgia foreign ministry over mistreatment of an Iranian woman wearing Hijab at the security check points of Tbilisi airport.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qasemi announced the above in response to a question on reports that a female passenger of Tbilisi-Isfahan flights had been asked by the Tbilisi airport security to remove her Hijab.

Qasemi said after receiving the news, the Iranian ambassador to Georgia called some of the passengers to make sure of the authenticity of the reports and then sent a strongly-worded protest note to the Georgian foreign ministry and the airport security police.

“Relevant Georgian authorities have also been asked to pursue the matter and prevent Iranian passengers from being subjected to such treatments again,” he said.

“Thanks to the measures adopted, we hope security police at Tbilisi will exercise utmost care concerning the necessity of respecting Muslim women’s privacy and keep such incidents from happening again,” Spokesman added.

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