Tehran began using aerial drone surveillance and a new facial recognition software in April 2024 to monitor hijab compliance ...

Iranian intelligence forces arrested four women from Kurdistan province following their attendance at an International Women's Day event in Sanandaj days prior, a human rights watchdog reported on ...

A renowned professor at Tehran University has emphasized that Iran’s economy, foreign relations and security are in a ...

Niloofar Hamedi and Elaheh Mohammadi had been sentenced to 13 and 12 years in prison for their coverage of the death of Mahsa Amini. Iranian Americans rally outside the White House on September 24 ...

Niloofar Hamedi and Elaheh Mohammadi had been sentenced to 13 and 12 years in prison respectively by an Iranian Revolutionary Court in October 2023 for their coverage of the death of Mahsa Amini ...

Death of Mahsa Zhina Amini and 2022 protests Tensions over the hijab have remained high since the 2022 protests following the death of Mahsa Zhina Amini, a young Kurdish woman who died in police ...

Kurdish political activists have refused to use the name ‘Mahsa Amini’ saying that it was her ‘colonial name’ imposed on her by Iran and that her Kurdish name Zhina Amini was not accepted. The group ...

Amini had never been politically active as a ... The parents gave their only daughter the Kurdish name Zhina (also spelled Jina), which means «life-giving.» Her passport, however, contains ...