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Arts & Culture - Music
12/23/2024 7:36:49 PM
An Iranian court on Monday freed on bail a female singer who performed in an online concert two weeks ago without adhering to the strict Islamic dress code, local media reported.

World - Region
12/18/2024 6:51:21 PM
Iran has paused the process of implementing a new, stricter law on women’s mandatory headscarf, or hijab, an official said — a bill that many believe could have reignited the protests that engulfed the Islamic Republic after the 2022 death of Mahsa Amini.

Arts & Culture - Music
12/15/2024 9:33:28 PM
​Iranian authorities have arrested a female singer who performed a virtual concert online, a lawyer said.

Al-Ahram Weekly - World
9/17/2024 8:44:59 PM
A social revolution is taking place in Iran two years after the death of Mahsa Amini, a young Iranian-Kurdish woman who died after being arrested for improperly wearing the hijab, writes Manal Lotfy

World - Region
9/14/2024 8:07:28 PM
On the streets of Iranian cities, it's becoming more common to see a woman passing by without a mandatory headscarf, or hijab, as the second anniversary of the death of Mahsa Amini and the mass protests it sparked approaches.

Arts & Culture - Music
9/7/2024 10:00:19 PM
In a Dubai recording studio, hijab-clad Ghaliaa Chaker tunes her guitar and belts out original songs as she builds a career that is turning heads for more than just her music.

Paris 2024 - News
7/24/2024 7:23:56 PM
French sprinter Sounkamba Sylla says she has been barred from Friday's opening ceremony at the Paris Olympics because she wears a hijab, and the French Olympic Committee said it is working with her to find a solution that adheres to the team's secular requirements for athletes.

World - Region
6/21/2024 4:17:19 PM
With just a week remaining before a presidential election, Iranians are divided over whether voting will address pressing economic issues and mandatory hijab laws.

World - International
1/11/2024 6:30:49 PM
The UN mission in Afghanistan said on Thursday it was "deeply concerned" by "recent arbitrary arrests and detentions" of Afghan women accused of flouting hijab rules set by Taliban authorities.

Arts & Culture - Screens
10/25/2023 3:53:45 PM
Iranian authorities have banned a dozen women actors from working for failing to observe the Islamic republic's strict dress code which includes mandatory headscarves, an official said Wednesday.

World - Region
10/6/2023 12:57:09 PM
Iranian campaigner Narges Mohammadi has for decades campaigned on the most sensitive issues in the Islamic republic, opposing pillars of the clerical system including capital punishment and the obligatory hijab, and defiantly refusing to give up her campaigning even behind bars.

World - Region
9/22/2023 3:11:09 PM
The UN called Friday on Iranian authorities to scrap a new law that dramatically increases penalties for women who flout strict Islamic dress code, describing it as "repressive and demeaning".

World - International
8/28/2023 4:17:06 PM
A school on Indonesia's main island has partially shaved the heads of more than a dozen girls, its headmaster said Monday, after they were accused of wearing their Islamic hijab headscarves incorrectly.

World - International
8/28/2023 12:33:06 PM
The wearing of abaya dresses by some Muslim women in French schools is a "political attack", the government's spokesman said Monday as he explained a ban announced on the clothing.

World - International
8/17/2023 8:43:54 PM
Women lose value if men can see their uncovered faces in public, a spokesman for a key ministry of Afghanistan’s Taliban government said Thursday, adding that religious scholars in the country agree that a woman must keep her face covered when outside the home.

Sports - World
7/30/2023 10:43:14 AM
Stepping onto the field against South Korea in Morocco’s second Women’s World Cup match, defender Nouhaila Benzina made history as the first player to wear a hijab while competing at a senior-level global tournament.

World - Region
7/26/2023 10:50:31 AM
Iranian authorities have in the last months launched an intensified crackdown against women deemed to have violated the Islamic Republic's strict dress rules, Amnesty International said on Wednesday.

Arts & Culture - Screens
7/23/2023 4:57:53 PM
Iranian authorities have banned a film festival that put out a publicity poster featuring an actress who was not wearing a hijab headscarf, state media reported.

World - Region
7/19/2023 7:01:10 PM
A court in Iran has given a prominent actress a suspended two-year prison sentence for failing to wear the compulsory hijab headscarf in public, local media reported on Wednesday.

World - Region
2/13/2023 7:59:38 PM
An Iranian police officer has been reprimanded after he did not enforce the country's dress code requiring women to cover their hair, local media reported Monday.

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