A year and a half after the start of the “Woman, Life, Freedom” protests, police in Iran have resumed “morality patrols” to ...
Videos from Iran showed women struggling as "Morality Police" officers tried to shove them into vans in widespread arrests.
The role of the morality police, which enforces veiling laws, came under scrutiny after a detainee, 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, died in its custody in mid-September.
For nearly three weeks, Iranians have marched in the streets to denounce the Islamic regime that has ruled for more than 40 years. What started as a response to the killing of a young woman by the ...
By Guest writer in Tehran As Iran grapples with growing regional tensions with Israel, the police forces across the country ...
Protesting the murder of Mahsa Amini, who had suffered a similar fate at the hands of Iran’s morality police for improperly wearing her hijab just a week prior.
Police in Iran announced a new crackdown Saturday on women who ignore the country's strict Islamic dress code that makes it compulsory for them to wear headscarves in public.
A United Nations fact-finding mission revealed on Monday that the death of Mahsa Amini while in the custody of Iran's morality police was deemed "unlawful" and attributed to acts of violence.
Iranian authorities in the capital city of Tehran have launched a campaign named ‘Noor’ to tighten the implementation of the ...
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Following the introduction of new harsh measures aimed at preventing defiance of Iran’s compulsory hijab law, business owners in the country now fear closure of their stores ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In September 2022, a wave of protests spread across Iran in reaction to the death of a young Kurdish woman ...
Iran made it mandatory for women to obey the Islamic dress code shortly after the 1979 Islamic revolution that toppled the country's shah. Police in Iran announced a new crackdown Saturday on ...