Iranian women
How Iranian women could shatter the regime's oppression
In a powerful episode of The Deep Dive, taekwondo champion and women’s rights activist Marzieh Hamidi shares a raw and urgent message from the streets of Iran.
UN rights experts, influential women condemn Iran’s 'sham' trial of activist Zahra Tabari
Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate hospitalized twice after violent arrest, family says
Iran spares child bride from death penalty after she pays off family of dead abuser
Tehran attacks 'anti-Iranian' move to award jailed activist Nobel Peace Prize
Mohammedi, a campaigner for women's rights and against the death penalty, is currently serving a 12-year prison sentence
Iran rights group says mother of hospitalized teenage girl arrested
Iranian authorities also deny reports by rights activists that the 16-year-old girl, Armita Geravand, was injured on Sunday in a confrontation with officers enforcing the country's Islamic dress code
Why is Iran’s regime so afraid of Kurdish dissidents? - analysis
Iran has tended to believe it can oppress minority groups in specific ways and that the groups will not unite in protest at the same time.
Iran Guards detain dual national for 'organizing unrest and sabotage'
The Revolutionary Guards detained a dual national suspected of "trying to organize unrest and sabotage," on the anniversary of Mahsa Amini's death.
Iranian female inmates set fire to Tehran's Evan prison in protest
The Kurdistan Human Rights Network had said earlier that special forces beat up the imprisoned women before gaining control of the fire.
A year after Mahsa Amini’s death, has anything changed in Iran?
IRANIAN AFFAIRS: Despite the Iranian regime clamping down with modesty laws, the Iranian people are pushing for freedom.
Iran slams opposition abroad for 'profiting' off of Mahsa Amini protests
Mass protests rocked Iran last fall and continued into January as a result of the killing of the young Kurdish girl by the Iranian regime.
'Gender apartheid': UN slams Iran's modesty laws, one year to Amini's killing
The UN said that this is "gender discrimination designed to bring the women of Iran into complete submission."
Iranian chess player who removed hijab gets Spanish citizenship
The 26-year-old has told Reuters she had no regrets over her gesture in support of the protest movement against her country's clerical leadership.
What Iran doubling down on hijab enforcement means - analysis
Iranian media has relaunched attacks against the family of murdered Mahsa Jina Amini, who was killed for not wearing the hijab.