Iranian women continue to experience setbacks in their rights after the Iranian government not only withdrew a critical law on violence against women, but also intensified their digital surveillance on them through text messages warning them about hijab violations.
Iran allegedly tried to pay a drug trafficker from Georgia a considerable sum of money to assassinate a Jewish religious leader in Azerbaijan, according to security officials cited by the Washington Post.
An Iranian court has allegedly sentenced a famous Iranian singer and rapper to death on appeal for blasphemy against the Prophet Muhammad, with the Iranian judiciary denying the reports made by local media.
An Iranian dissident and musician became a target of an assassination plot by the Iranian regime, which ultimately failed, an international Iranian news outlet has learned.
An Iranian woman went viral on social media after she had a confrontation with a cleric, who berated her for not wearing a hijab at an airport in the Iranian capital, Tehran, where the woman angrily tore off his turban and wore it like a scarf in an act of protest.
An Iranian-American academic told a former British MP during an online interview that the collapse of the Assad regime in Syria is a victory for the Israelis, further lamenting that Turkey under Erdoğan is not serious about the Palestinian cause and with the MP suggesting that the October 7 attacks now looks like a bad idea.
Iranian authorities have sentenced a political prisoner to death and transferred him to solitary confinement ahead of his execution for blasphemy and for allegedly collaborating with Israel.
Iranian political prisoner Mohammad-Amin Mahdavi Shayesteh was transferred to a pre-execution solitary confinement cell.
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An Iranian singer went viral after she live-streamed a historic virtual concert on YouTube where she performed without a hijab, despite the Islamic Republic’s efforts to pass a new, stricter law on hijab that many human rights organizations and activists have criticized.
Over the past three years, Iran has been accused of committing international human rights violations by carrying out an unprecedented number of amputations as punishment for theft.
As opposition to the Iranian regime’s hijab laws persists even though protests have largely died down, the passage of a new hijab law sparked a wave of frustration and condemnation across Iran.
A Draconian Law: Iran's New "Chastity and Hijab" Legislation Sparks Outrage - Iran News Update https://t.co/c3pLwmDFCJ