The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on Friday condemned reports from Iran of increasingly strict enforcement of the state's strict mandatory hijab laws for women ...
Iran's hardliners have employed female 'hijab enforcers' to spy on bare-headed women and bundle them into vans for interrogation amid a new crackdown. The new enforcers, dressed in black from ...
Meanwhile, another dissident sentenced to death, and an asylum seeker’s suicide draws attention to pressures Iranians face in ...
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 ...
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. "From today the ...
The Iranian government has come up with new plans to clamp down on women who are defying the hijab dress code. As per documents obtained by BBC Persian from the months of April and May, the ...
Iran’s authorities are installing cameras in public places to identify women defying the country’s compulsory dress code. On Saturday, local police said cameras will be installed in public ...
The move comes amid continuous protests against the government's strict hijab rules that followed the death of activist Mahsa Amini, who was rounded up last September for allegedly wearing the ...
Move is aimed at trying to quiet protests that have taken place across the country, analysts say. Iran’s attorney general said the country had disbanded its so-called morality police and is ...
Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...
A locked-off camera can convey many things — watchfulness, stealthiness, clinical remove or elegant restraint — but seldom is it as evocatively accusatory as in Alireza Khatami and Ali Asgari ...