The United Nations has condemned the Taliban after the ultraconservative administration publicly flogged more than 60 people, including more than a dozen women, in the northern Afghanistani province of Sari Pul.
A newly registered Islamic charity in the United Kingdom is under fire after a video where it compared women who don’t wear hijab to “unwrapped sweets” went viral, with critics describing the remarks as misogynistic and offensive.
A leaked internal document written by three members of Iran’s security forces revealed that an Iranian female teenager arrested for protesting against the regime was sexually assaulted and brutally murdered.
Iran erupts in outrage as BBC World's report on Nika Shakarami, an icon of the Woman, Life, Freedom movement, reveals she was sexually assaulted and murdered by security forces during the nationwide 2022 protests. https://t.co/NrFfM4867y
A teacher sparked controversy in the United Kingdom for his statements regarding Westernized girls, which he described as “lunatics,” and has been banned from teaching indefinitely.
A man in France was arrested and will be put on trial for allegedly kidnapping, raping, and making death threats against a French Jewish woman, with the suspect reportedly seeking revenge for Palestinians, local French media reported.
France: Man suspected of abducting, raping Jewish woman 'to avenge Palestine' https://t.co/mtgswvjnqE
The longstanding tensions between Israel and Iran reached a turning point when the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and other Iranian proxies and allies launched a massive attack against Israel on April 13th with drones as well as cruise and ballistic missiles.
As more and more countries worldwide outlaw the practice of female genital mutilation, the West African country of The Gambia might be the first country in the world to repeal such a ban, stoking a wave of criticism from human rights advocates both in Gambia and abroad.
The Supreme Leader of the Taliban has vowed to start stoning women to death in public as he announced the fight against Western democracy will continue, further marking the Taliban’s quick return to harsh punishments in public after an American-led withdrawal of Afghanistan in 2021 and the Taliban's subsequent return to power following the departure.
A video of a fight between a young woman and an Islamic cleric in Iran went viral on social media after she caught the cleric filming her holding her baby while her hijab was loose in a clinic.
Iranian authorities will prosecute the individual who sent a video to Iran International TV depicting a scuffle over hijab at a clinic, leading to widespread outrage on social media.https://t.co/aNb2InvfKB