Iran’s parliament speaker said late Monday that the country is laying the necessary groundwork and regulations to implement a new controversial hijab bill, proposed in the wake of massive countrywide ...

Ms. Amini, from the Iranian Kurdish community, had been arrested by the country’s “morality police” for allegedly not ...

UN report claims Iran using Nazer app, tech to monitor women not wearing hijab | One of India's leading Digital News Agency ...

Tehran began using aerial drone surveillance and a new facial recognition software in April 2024 to monitor hijab compliance ...

An anonymous official told Iran’s semiofficial Fars news agency that the flogging came as punishment for possessing alcohol - ...

Iranian intelligence forces arrested four women from Kurdistan province following their attendance at an International Women's Day event in Sanandaj days prior, a human rights watchdog reported on ...

Iranian musician Mehdi Yarrahi received 74 lashes as part of his sentence a song supporing women's rights and opposes the ...

Yarrahi, 43, released the song a year after the Women, Life Freedom movement in 2023, which was sparked by the death of ...

The Iranian Government has continued to ramp up efforts to restrict the rights of civilians including young children as part ...

The hijab battles are essentially a test of who ... “The police don’t have enough handcuffs for all of them,” says Keywan Karimi, a Kurdish filmmaker in Iran. “The system is the same ...

American and Iraqi military forces killed a senior Islamic State leader using an airstrike, U.S. Central Command confirmed in ...

Iranian authorities have escalated their crackdown on women’s rights defenders, journalists, singers and other activists ...