Iranian teen injured on Tehran Metro while not wearing a head scarf has died, state media saysState media reported on Saturday that a teenage girl from Iran, who was injured in a mysterious incident on the Tehran Metro while not wear...
28 Oct, 2023, 01.43 PM IST
Joe Biden announces more Iran sanctions on death anniversary of Mahsa AminiMahsa Amini had been detained by Iran's morality police for allegedly wearing her headscarf too loosely in violation of laws that require w...
15 Sep, 2023, 08.18 PM IST
Iran targets e-commerce giant over photos of female employees without headscarves in new crackdownOne of the offices of Digikala, Iran's largest e-commerce company, has been shut down by authorities after pictures were posted online show...
24 Jul, 2023, 01.48 PM IST
Risking revival of unrest, Iran rulers tighten curbs on dissentIranian authorities are cracking down on dissents ahead of the anniversary of the death of a woman in morality police custody. Journalists,...
18 Jul, 2023, 04.33 PM IST
Iran brings back morality police patrol to enforce strict Hijab lawPolice squads will patrol the streets on foot and in cruiser vans across the country as of Sunday to take action against "those who continu...
17 Jul, 2023, 12.38 AM IST
Year-ender 2022: How a 'custodial death' took women to war against Iran's now-abolished 'morality' policeThe death sparked fury and civilian protests seldom seen on the streets of Tehran, with citizens, across age and gender, clogging the corne...
31 Dec, 2022, 01.43 PM IST
Mohsen Shekhari, Iran's martyr#1The impact of this execution will determine the future course of the protests. The murder by the Iranian state is a grim reminder of the wa...
10 Dec, 2022, 02.24 AM IST
Iran Hijab protest: After two months of protest, official claims country's morality police disbandedAttorney General Mohammad Jafar Montazeri was quoted by the ISNA news agency as claiming that the moral police had nothing to do with the b...
05 Dec, 2022, 11.15 PM IST
Iran protesters call for three-day strike, nearly 200 dead till nowTop Iranian officials have repeatedly said Tehran would not change the Islamic Republic's mandatory hijab policy, which requires women to d...
05 Dec, 2022, 10.34 AM IST
Iran hijab protest: Iranian parliament, judiciary are reviewing headscarf lawUnable to suppress the two months of protests against the forced Hijab mandate, the Iranian parliament and judiciary are finally looking in...
04 Dec, 2022, 06.44 PM IST
Protest-hit Iran abolishes morality police"Morality police have nothing to do with the judiciary" and have been abolished, Attorney General Mohammad Jafar Montazeri was quoted as sa...
04 Dec, 2022, 05.05 PM IST
FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022: Iran players refuse to sing national anthem in solidarity with protesters at homeOn November 21 in Qatar FIFA World Cup 2022, at Doha's Khalifa International Stadium, before the England vs. Iran match, Iran players lined...
21 Nov, 2022, 10.14 PM IST
Iran sanctions British organisations and individualsAmong the seven institutions listed are Britain's National Cyber Security Centre and the Government Communications Headquarters intelligenc...
20 Oct, 2022, 12.59 AM IST
EU sanctions Iran 'morality' police, ministerThe list, published in the bloc's official administrative gazette, also blacklisted the chiefs of the so-called morality police, the Revolu...
17 Oct, 2022, 06.29 PM IST
Iran will act decisively against protestors, says President Ebrahim RaisiAt least 41 people have been killed in the week-long unrest, state television said on Saturday. It said that toll was based on its own coun...
26 Sep, 2022, 12.14 AM IST
What kept Iran protests going after first spark?The death of Mahsa Amini, who had been picked up by Iran's morality police for her allegedly loose headscarf, or hijab, has triggered darin...
21 Sep, 2022, 05.00 PM IST
Why a young woman's death is sparking outrage in Iran against morality policeTehran police said she died of a heart attack in custody, others allege torture and ill-treatment.
17 Sep, 2022, 03.35 PM IST