By labelling protestors as mentally ill, the Iranian government aims to delegitimize demonstrators and discourage other women ...

The death of Miss Amini sparked some of the largest protests in Iran for decades - and it has seen women front and centre of the demonstrations. "There have been lots of protests against the ...

A wave of protests has swept the country since September, when 22-year-old Mahsa Amini died in police custody. Demonstrators - many of them women - want to get rid of Iran's strict religious ...

Ahou Daryaei has not been seen in public since she was bundled into a car by men in plain clothes and driven away.

Iranian Ahou Daryaei has recently joined the ranks of women who have used their bodies to challenge the physical and symbolic ...

Women have been at the forefront of escalating protests in Iran sparked by the death in custody of a woman detained for breaking hijab laws. Crowds cheered when women burned their hijabs on a ...

Iranian women who resist wearing the hijab are to be given treatment at a specialist mental health clinic in Tehran.

The protests led to acts of civil disobedience by Iranian women and girls against the mandatory hijab. All women in Iran must conceal their hair with a headscarf and wear loose-fitting trousers ...

BOOM found that the video shows women part of the international radical feminist group FEMEN, protesting against incidents of ...

Amnesty International shared video of the incident on social media and called for the immediate release of the woman, who it said had been “violently arrested" Saturday.

Two years after mass protests, women are still demonstrating against Iran's mandatory hijab law and clerical rule. Iran's government is saying the activists are in need of psychiatric help.

Iranian Nobel Laureate Narges Mohammadi has been sent back to prison after having surgery for a potentially cancerous bone ...