A woman without Hijab is illegal in Iran January 06, 2025 A video has gone viral on social media showing a woman without a mandatory headscarf confronting a cleric at Tehran's Mehrabad Airport,...
Iranian cultural figures protest hijab January 04, 2025 Despite the violent government crackdown on the Woman, Life, Freedom protests in 2023, Iranian women persist in defiance through unveiling,...
Iran's new hijab law may carry risk of death penalty December 07, 2024 Iran ’s new chastity and hijab law has drawn criticism from journalists and activists who warn it represents a new weapon in the state's...
New hijab law criticized by Iranians December 04, 2024 Iranian citizens warn the country’s new hijab law will tighten restrictions on personal freedoms while also serving as a tool for state-driv...
Iranian athletes refuse to return home November 30, 2024 Teenage table tennis player has eluded her team in Denmark and refused to return to Iran, a sport federation said and Iranian media reporte...
2nd Iranian teen suicide in a week over appearance November 09, 2024 A female teenage student in southern Iran died by suicide after facing violence and threats from her school principal, a teacher's union...
UN report highlights serious Iran human rights violations November 02, 2024 A report by the United Nation's new special rapporteur on Iran ’s human rights highlighted the country's fraught record and called f...
Yemen's Houthi militia storm women's club in Sanaa October 22, 2024 Yesterday, a leader in the Houthi militia stormed a women's club in the capital, Sana'a, which is under the control of the militia,...
Iranian female prisoners demand halt of sexual abuse October 08, 2024 Twenty-two female political and ideological prisoners in Tehran ’s Evin Prison have released an open letter demanding an immediate halt to t...
Iran's clerical rule critic Ahmad Ghadiani arrested October 01, 2024 Iranian security forces have arrested Abolfazl Ghadiani, a former revolutionary who has become an outspoken critic of Iran 's Supreme Le...
Rejecting the hijab is intolerable in Iran September 26, 2024 Despite Iran ’s new president, Masoud Pezeshkian, pledging to end harassment by the notorious 'morality police' over violent hijab e...
Women political prisoners in Iran plan a hunger strike September 24, 2024 Forty-seven female political prisoners in Iran's notorious Evin Prison plan a day-long hunger strike to coincide with President Masoud ...
1,500 executed in Iran since 2022 protests September 18, 2024 At least 1,425 people have been executed in Iran since Mahsa Amini ’s death in custody sparked a nationwide protest movement in September 20...
Female Iranian activist dies from gunshot wounds sustained in 2022 protests September 09, 2024 Sara Deldar, a former political prisoner, has died due to multiple infections caused by pellet wounds sustained during the 2022 nationwide p...
Iranian woman shot by police over hijab August 19, 2024 Iran ’s state security forces have forced 31-year-old Arezou Badri, who was shot by police for allegedly violating hijab rules, to give a co...
Iranian female detainees protest executions August 10, 2024 A group of female political prisoners in the women 's ward of Tehran's Evin Prison were assaulted by prison guards on Tuesday, after...
Escalating repression against women in Iran August 05, 2024 In the latest crackdown on artistic expression, Iranian security forces have arrested Zara Esmaeili, a young artist whose videos singing in...
Iran steps up deportation of Afghan refugees August 03, 2024 Iranian authorities have expelled Kobra Gholami, an outspoken Afghan social researcher, allegedly for failing to comply with the country...
Four Iranian women at risk of execution July 29, 2024 Iranian authorities have accused four women of "armed rebellion", a sentence carrying the death penalty , as the country's exe...
Iranians disillusioned with Presidential Candidate June 13, 2024 Controversy continues around Massoud Pezeshkian, the only proreform candidate running for president in Iran , as some claim that his chances...
