iranian women

Iran rights group says mother of hospitalized teenage girl arrested

Iranian authorities also deny reports by rights activists that the 16-year-old girl, Armita Geravand, was injured on Sunday in a confrontation with officers enforcing the country's Islamic dress code

By REUTERS
05/10/2023

Why is Iran’s regime so afraid of Kurdish dissidents? - analysis

Iran has tended to believe it can oppress minority groups in specific ways and that the groups will not unite in protest at the same time.

Iran Guards detain dual national for 'organizing unrest and sabotage'

The Revolutionary Guards detained a dual national suspected of "trying to organize unrest and sabotage," on the anniversary of Mahsa Amini's death.

By REUTERS
16/09/2023

Iranian female inmates set fire to Tehran's Evan prison in protest

The Kurdistan Human Rights Network had said earlier that special forces beat up the imprisoned women before gaining control of the fire.

16/09/2023

A year after Mahsa Amini’s death, has anything changed in Iran?

IRANIAN AFFAIRS: Despite the Iranian regime clamping down with modesty laws, the Iranian people are pushing for freedom.

15/09/2023

Iran slams opposition abroad for 'profiting' off of Mahsa Amini protests

Mass protests rocked Iran last fall and continued into January as a result of the killing of the young Kurdish girl by the Iranian regime.

'Gender apartheid': UN slams Iran modesty laws, one year to Amini's killing

The UN said that this is "gender discrimination designed to bring the women of Iran into complete submission."

Iranian chess player who removed hijab gets Spanish citizenship

The 26-year-old has told Reuters she had no regrets over her gesture in support of the protest movement against her country's clerical leadership.

By REUTERS
26/07/2023

What Iran doubling down on hijab enforcement means - analysis

Iranian media has relaunched attacks against the family of murdered Mahsa Jina Amini, who was killed for not wearing the hijab.

Repression by the morality police: Iran’s ethnic minority ‘taming’ policy - opinion

As South Azerbaijani dissident Babek Chalabi noted, the world needs to "break free from Iran's nurturing of terrorism."

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