Saturday's police statement on the hijab law called on owners of businesses to “seriously monitor the observance of societal norms with their diligent inspections”. Under Iran's Islamic sharia ...

Iran’s morality police will resume patrols to make women comply with strict Islamic dress codes, state media reported Sunday, 10 months after the death of a young woman in their custody ...

At least 448 people have been killed during the protests in Iran. Women in Iran will still be required to wear the hijab under Islamic Republic law, even if the country's government decides to ...

Iran is in the midst of countrywide ... which prohibited women from wearing *** veil or head covering in public regardless of their religion. Police would forcibly remove coverings from women ...

Tehran, Iran ... veil covering hair for women – on pain of prison, flogging, or financial penalties. For decades, Iranian authorities have enforced the mandatory hijab through patrols by police ...

Iran is in the midst of countrywide ... which prohibited women from wearing *** veil or head covering in public regardless of their religion. Police would forcibly remove coverings from women ...

April 15 (Reuters) - People who encourage women to remove the hijab will be prosecuted in criminal courts and will have no right of appeal against any conviction, Iran's deputy attorney general ...

Protests spread across Iran in September 2022 in response to the death of a young woman who died after being detained by Iran’s morality police for ... “Iran’s Anti-Veil Protests Draw ...

Iranian women are putting an end to a veiled society and the compulsory veil,” she said. WATCH: Iran cracks down on ... was arrested by morality police in the capital Tehran and died in custody.

Iran's Guidance Patrol is under fire after protests across the country. NPR's Juana Summers speaks with an Iranian scholar Roxane Farmanfarmaian about the history of the controversial institution.

Pardis Mahdavi is provost of the University of Montana and the author of “Passionate Uprisings: Iran’s Sexual Revolution.” The “morality police” came for me exactly 13 minutes into my ...