The incident triggered outrage among Iranian dissidents two years after thousands of women took to the streets in protest following the brutal death of Mahsa Amini in 2022. “I will be monitoring ...

Authoritarian regimes rely on patriarchal structures to consolidate their power. In Iran, this partnership serves to control ...

Videos show the woman arguing with security forces in Tehran after removing some of her clothes in an apparent protest of the ...

It is the question trending on Iranian social media, spray-painted on the back of Tehran bus seats, and discussed in hushed ...

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

Iranian men and women have been protesting the oppressive Islamic Republic’s rule for decades, but particularly since the Woman, Life, Freedom demonstrations following the murder of 22-year-old ...

She turned her body into a protest, stripping to her underwear and marching through campus—defying a regime that constantly controls women’s bodies. Her act is a powerful reminder of Iranian ...

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 ...

She was reportedly taken into police custody, then to a psychiatric center. A woman at an Iranian university stripped down to her underwear in an apparent act of protest after university security ...

Unprecedented women-led protests erupted in 2022 demanding the abolition of the mandatory dress code following the death in custody of Mahsa Amini, an Iranian Kurdish woman who had been arrested ...

Observers have drawn parallels between these demonstrations, viewing them as key moments in Iranian women’s ongoing struggle for personal freedoms. After the September 2022 death in custody of 22-year ...