Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi, imprisoned in Iran, received an additional one-year sentence for activism, including urging vo...

One of the offices of Digikala, Iran's largest e-commerce company, has been shut down by authorities after pictures were posted online show...

The French soccer federation bans women from wearing headscarves in official matches, as well as at competitions it organizes. It's not in ...

The closures were announced a day after police said they have now implemented a plan to deal with women who violate the law, using surveill...

CNN’s Christiane Amanpour tweeted that an aide to the Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi approached her, saying the interview could not happen...

The bench pulled up some of the petitioners, who sought adjournment in the matter, and said it would not permit "this kind of forum shoppin...

"We have been demanding the implementation of the High Court order, despite us submitting memoranda to college authorities, they were not i...

Following the High Court order last month upholding the state government's decision not to allow hijabs in classrooms, Aliya Assadi, who wa...

On Friday it asked contending parties to make written submissions if they had more arguments. The petitioners had moved the court after the...

Devadatt Kamat referred to a judgement of a South African court where a Hindu girl was permitted to wear a nose ring to school. "This case ...

The Karnataka notification allowed college development committees to prescribe uniforms, but they don't have the backing of law, petitioner...

"I am not only challenging the GO but also asking for a positive mandate for allowing me to wear a headscarf of the same colour of the unif...

"If a girl decides to wear Hijab and asks her parents to do so and when her parents allow her to wear it, who can stop her from wearing it?...

Speaking to reporters after landing in the national capital, Bommai said, "The matter is before the high court and it will be decided there...

Education minister, Abdul Baqi Haqqani, said female university students would be required to wear a hijab but did not elaborate on whether ...

"A prohibition on wearing any visible form of expression of political, philosophical or religious beliefs in the workplace may be justified...

Many are wearing a headscarf for the first time.