Jailed Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi is also protesting against the law in Iran that makes hijab mandatory for women. Another jailed activist, Nasrin Sotoudeh, is also being denied medical care.
The death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, in the custody of Iran's morality police over alleged non-compliance with the hijab law led to nationwide, women-led protests. Now, protests have largely died after a...
The proposed new Iranian hijab law also imposes greater gender segregation at public places, such as universities, parks, and tourist locations.
One of two journalists sentenced to prison, Niloufar Hamedi, had broken the news of the death of Mahsa Amini after Iran's morality police had taken her in custody for alleged violation of the hijab law.
Iran's theocracy is trying hard to both ignore the upcoming anniversary of nationwide protests over the country's mandatory headscarf law and tamp down on any possibility of more unrest.
Women in Iran are required by law to cover their head with hijab in public. The rule to wear hijab was introduced in Iran after the Islamic Revolution of 1979.
The move came just days after the anniversary of the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman who had been detained by the morality police for violating the country's dress code.
Despite the protests dying down, several incidents of women talking bare-headed and defying the Iranian dress code that requires women to wear hijabs publicly have surfaced.
Iranian-American model Mahlagha Jaberi is one of the most famous fashion personalities of Iranian descent. She wore the noose dress in support of the Iranian...
For the past six months, Iran has been rocked by protests triggered by the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini over alleged violation of the country's hijab rule....
The death of the 22-year-old has given a new fillip to the movement for 'Women, Life, Freedom' in Iran but many remain unsafe amid a relentless government...
Hair has become the symbol of the Iranian women's resistance movement which boiled over after the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini following alleged torture by...
At least 500 protesters and civilians have been killed in violence amid a brutal crackdown by the Iranian government following unrest after Mahsa Amini's death...
On September 13, 2022, 22-year-old Jina Mahsa Amini was arrested by Iran’s morality police for not wearing her hijab properly. She was allegedly beaten up...
These sportspersons rebelled against Iranian regime’s oppressive methods, chiefly in protests over the custodial death of Mahsa Amini. Those athletes whose...
Football star Sardar Azmoun, the ‘Iranian Messi’, was resolute in his support for ‘Women. Life. Freedom’, even at the cost of his career
Outlook's upcoming issue looks at the ongoing women's movement in Iran that began after the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini over the alleged violation of the...
Videos posted on social media showed parents gathered at schools to take their children home and some students being taken to hospitals by ambulance or buses
Iran's president Ebrahim Raisi has ordered an investigation after hundreds of students at about 30 girls' schools across cities winded up in hospital beds with...
Women have led protests across Iran in which they have defied the Iranian regime by cutting their hair publicly, walking with uncovered heads, and burning...
Iranian singer Shervin Hajipour was arrested over his song Baraye that became an unofficial anthem for Iranian women-led protests following Mahsa Amini's...
The hanging of Ali Reza Akbari, a close ally of top security official Ali Shamkhani, suggests an ongoing power struggle within Iran's theocracy as it tries to...
Following the custodial death of 22-year-old Iranian woman Mahsa Amini in September, Iran has been rocked by nationwide protests. Women have often publicly...
Many important events including the war in Ukraine took place in 2022. But for me the top stories were those of women's resistance in Iran and Afghanistan....
The strait is located at the mouth of the Persian Gulf and is crucial to global energy supplies, with about a fifth of all oil traded at sea passing through it.
