The lives of women and girls continue to be systemically devalued in Iran today. A new report is out from a UN fact-finding ...

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Human rights activist in Iran. She won the 2023 Nobel Prize for Peace while imprisoned for advocating for women's rights. A woman without a headscarf holds a sign reading, "For Freedom" in ...

Iranian officials have flogged a popular singer who posted a song online urging women to remove their mandatory headscarves over a conviction for possessing and consuming alcohol, his lawyer and ...

Iran increasingly relies on electronic surveillance and the public to inform on women refusing to wear the country's mandatory headscarf in public, U.N. report says.

On Thursday, March 13, visiting professor Dr. Neda Hajivosough, a peace and Iranian women’s rights activist, delivered a ...

March 6 (UPI) --Iranian musician Mehdi Yarrahi received 74 lashes as part of his sentence a song supporing women's rights and opposes the Middle Eastern country's draconian hijab laws, his lawyer ...

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Yarrahi, 43, released the song a year after the Women, Life Freedom movement in 2023, which was sparked by the death of Iranian woman, Mahsa Amini, 22, while in custody for breaking Iran’s ...

Mehdi Yarrahi, an Iranian singer and musician known for his song encouraging women to remove their hijabs, was lashed 74 times as part of his punishment for supporting the protests that swept the ...

Mehdi Yarrahi, a popular Iranian musician, was arrested in a 2023 crackdown after releasing a song that praised women who rejected the mandatory hijab rule. By Leily Nikounazar and Lynsey Chutel A ...

PARIS, France (AFP) — A prominent Iranian pop singer who made a song urging women to remove their headscarves said Wednesday that he was willing to pay “a price for freedom” after being ...