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The “hijab and chastity law” in Iran proposes stricter penalties for girls and women who do not fully cover their hair, forearms, or lower legs, including fines, prison sentences of up to 15 years. However, Iran’s National Security Council has put the brakes on this antiquated and contentious law after it was supposed to come…
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File picture of a protestor holding a poster with a picture of Iranian woman Mahsa Amini. | Photo Credit: AFP Tehran on March 10 strongly condemned a UN report on the Islamic republic’s response to mass protests in 2022, denouncing Western countries’ “Iranophobia”. The report was built on “baseless claims” and “false and biased information,…
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The Iranian singer who won a Grammy presented by U.S. President Joe Biden’s wife said on March 1, 2024, that he had been sentenced to over three years in prison over his anthem supporting the 2022 protests over the death of Mahsa Amini. | Photo Credit: AP An Iranian singer who won a Grammy presented…
In this image from surveillance video aired by Iranian state television, women pull 16-year-old Armita Geravand from a train car on the Tehran Metro in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Oct. 1, 2023. | Photo Credit: AP An Iranian teenage girl injured weeks ago in a mysterious incident on Tehran’s Metro while not wearing a head scarf has died, Iranian…
Women take part in a rally on the first anniversary of the death of Mahsa Amini which prompted protests across the country, in Istanbul, Turkey on September 16, 2023. The Banner reads, “We revolt against the world for Mahsa Amini”. | Photo Credit: Reuters Iran’s judiciary on October 22 announced lengthy jail sentences for two…
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People take part in a protest against the Islamic regime of Iran following the death of Mahsa Amini, in Berlin, Germany, on December 10, 2022. | Photo Credit: Reuters Mahsa Amini, the 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman who died in police custody in Iran last year, sparking worldwide protests against the country’s conservative Islamic theocracy, was awarded…
Joe Biden in a statement on Friday said Amini “inspired a historic movement” Sporadic protests continued in Iran on Sunday amid a widespread crackdown by security forces a year after a young Kurdish woman’s death in custody set off some of the worst political unrest in four decades. The death on September 16 last year…
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Women hold placards during a global protest in solidarity with Iranian women in New York on September 16, 2023, on the first anniversary of the death of Iranian Kurd Mahsa Amini in custody. | Photo Credit: AFP Gunmen opened fire on a group of paramilitary forces in southern Iran, killing one of them and wounding…
Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurd, died in police custody on last year. (File) Tehran, Iran: Iranian security forces foiled an assassination attempt Saturday on the father of Mahsa Amini, the young woman whose death in custody one year ago sparked nationwide protests, state media reported. The official IRNA news agency said the attempt on…
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People hold a placard with pictures of, as Iranian call them, martyrs, during a rally of Iranian diaspora in Europe, on the eve of the first anniversary of the death of Mahsa Amini, which prompted protests across their country, in Brussels, Belgium on September 15, 2023. | Photo Credit: Reuters Iranian security forces briefly detained…
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