After the deadly October 7 attacks by Hamas that killed 1,200 Israelis and the war that followed that killed over 44,000 Gazans, many pro-Palestinian supporters took to the streets and set up encampments on campuses, campaigning for a “free Palestine.” But what would a liberation of Palestine look like, and what will happen after?
Iran’s state Islamic body announced on November 12th that it will open a specialist mental health clinic in the Iranian capital, Tehran, to treat Iranian women who resist the regime’s mandatory hijab laws and refuse to wear headscarves.
Iran sets up mental health clinic to ‘treat’ women who refuse to wear hijab. I’m sure these women will be treated just as well as they treat the gay community. pic.twitter.com/ZfTdPFw8u4
A young Iranian woman was arrested for stripping off her clothes in protest outside her university after she was reportedly assaulted and harassed for improperly wearing her hijab, considered to be a violation of the Islamic Republic’s strict hijab laws.
As Israel wages war against Hezbollah in Lebanon by taking out most of the terrorist group’s leaders, including Hassan Nasrallah, an Iranian cleric made a bold claim that Israel was using supernatural creatures that Jews had supposedly used for 3,000 years.
September 16th marked the 2nd anniversary of the Women, Life, Freedom protests, which began after 22-year-old Mahsa Amini died under police custody after she was arrested for “improperly” wearing the hijab.
An Iranian woman and a mother of two was left paralyzed after being shot by Iranian police over an alleged violation of the regime’s mandatory hijab laws.
An Iranian man who was arrested during the 2022 anti-government protests for allegedly killing a senior IRGC intelligence official was executed on the morning of August 6th in the western province of Kermanshah.
A young female artist in Iran was arrested for singing in public spaces without a hijab, which violates both the Islamic Republic’s mandatory hijab law and bans on singing in public.
Iran's security forces have arrested Zara Esmaeili, a young Iranian woman whose videos of singing in public went viral. In Iran, it is illegal for women to sing or dance in public. pic.twitter.com/bMOQLH4fb2
The office of Turkish Airlines in Iran’s capital, Tehran, was closed down by Iranian police after female employees refused to wear the hijab in an act of defiance of the regime’s mandatory headscarf laws.
A prominent female Iranian dissident and political prisoner was given an additional 18-and-a-half-year prison sentence by the Islamic Republic after she released a statement condemning the October 7 attacks by Hamas against Israel and voicing her support for Israel.
Iranian Fatemeh Sepehri faces 18 years in prison. Why? Because she condemned the October 7 Hamas Muslim Brotherhood terror attacks. pic.twitter.com/Ajqg3lQoVv
