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The Headquarters for Enjoining the Good and Forbidding the Evil is legally active in Iran and has the authority to coordinate with other agencies, such as the morality police, the judiciary, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, and the parliament, to monitor and report people who do not comply with the hijab law and other moral codes. [1] [2]
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 ...
The Girls of Enghelab protests (Persian: دختران انقلاب) are protests against the compulsory hijab in Iran, part of the wider Iranian Democracy Movement. The protests were inspired by Vida Movahed, an Iranian woman known as the Girl of Enghelab Street (Persian: دختر خیابان انقلاب), who stood in the crowd on a utility box on Enghelab Street (Revolution Street) in ...
Amnesty International’s Iran unit called on the Iranian authorities to “immediately and unconditionally” release the student who was violently arrested on Saturday.
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.
LONDON — Protests led by women have erupted across Iran following the death of a 22-year-old woman in police custody. Mahsa Amini, from Kurdistan, was visiting Tehran on Sept. 13 when she was ...
In Iran, women face substantial legal and cultural restrictions on their rights and freedoms, shaped by a strict interpretation of Islamic law. Key areas of concern include: • Dress Code and Conduct: Women are required by law to wear the hijab and adhere to conservative dress standards, enforced by morality police who monitor public ...
A new draft law that would enshrine harsh punishments for women and girls who fail to wear a hijab in Iran could amount to “gender apartheid,” UN experts said in a statement on Friday.