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Civil unrest and protests against the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran associated with the death in police custody of Mahsa Amini (Persian: مهسا امینی) began on 16 September 2022 and carried on into 2023, but were said to have "dwindled" [15] or "died down" [16] by spring of 2023.
The Women, Life, Freedom movement in Iran is a protest movement launched in September 2022 after the death of Mahsa (Jina) Amini, a young Iranian woman who was arrested by the morality police for not wearing her hijab properly. The movement demands the end of compulsory hijab laws and other forms of discrimination and oppression against women ...
On 23 January 2023, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) rolled out a new slate of sanctions: it designated Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Cooperative Foundation and five of its board members, the Deputy Minister of Intelligence and Security Naser Rashedi, and four senior IRGC commanders in ...
A new bill before Iran's parliament could make penalties for women even more serious. It calls for fines of up to 360 million Iranian rials ($720) and prison sentences for women without the headscarf.
February 11, 2023 at 6:42 PM. Thousands gathered to protest for regime change in Iran during a rally outside Los Angeles City Hall on Saturday. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times)
In October 2023, Iranian teenage Armita Geravand was injured in a mysterious incident on Tehran’s metro while not wearing a headscarf. She later died in the hospital after falling into a coma.
September 2022, when new and more intense protests followed the killing of Mahsa Amini 22, while in the custody of the morality police after being arrested for "improper hijab". [citation needed] As of April 2023, protests have fizzled out due to a violent crackdown, in the form of mass arrests and several executions, but obedience to mandatory ...
Iran is trying to reimpose strict dress codes months after outrage swept the country and fueled a wave of unrest that saw women and girls remove their headscarves. ... 2023 at 7 :24 AM. Iran is ...