Iranian police have dispersed a weeks-long sit-in by demonstrators ... of a bill imposing tougher penalties on women who refuse to wear the covering, known as a hijab. Parliament approved the bill in ...

ALBAWABA - In a remarkable move, the Iranian government has decided to dismantle the morality police, a unit formed in 2005 to enforce regulations on modest dress and chaste behaviors. Iranian ...

Among those efforts, Iranian authorities continue to target women and girls. While the “Hijab and Chastity” law has not yet officially passed, measures to implement it have already begun.

ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Iran’s parliament speaker said late Monday that the country is laying the necessary groundwork and regulations to implement the new controversial hijab bill ...

An Iranian activist has been sentenced to 178 lashes and 18 months in prison after being arrested for not wearing a hijab. Hamideh Zarei, a Gilak activist and former political prisoner ...

At Tehran's Amirkabir University, authorities installed facial recognition software at its entrance gate to also find women not wearing the hijab, it said. Surveillance cameras on Iran's major ...

A woman without a headscarf holds a sign reading, "For Freedom" in Farsi, beside a burning dumpster amid protests against the Islamic Republic of Iran's mandatory hijab law in Tehran on Oct. 1, 2022.