A year and a half after the start of the “Woman, Life, Freedom” protests, police in Iran have resumed “morality patrols” to ...
Iran’s morality police have been withdrawn from Tehran’s metro system after a teenage girl was left in a coma following an alleged beating for not wearing a headscarf. Armita Gravand, 16, is ...
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 ...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iranian authorities on Sunday announced a new campaign to force women to wear the Islamic headscarf and morality police returned to the streets 10 months after ...
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.
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.
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 ...
The morality police had largely pulled back following the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini last September, as authorities struggled to contain mass protests calling for the overthrow of the ...
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 ...