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Saniya MQ | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Every rap song of Saniya Kaiyumuddin Mistri (Saniya MQ) revolves around politics, gender equality, social biases, corruption and poverty. On a rainy day, as I walk around the narrow alleys of…

Authorities in Iran are trying to enforce laws obligating women to cover their hair by sending them into psychological treatment. While healthcare organisations warn the country’s judiciary is hijacking psychiatric medicine for…

By Associated Press ADELAIDE: Stepping onto the field against South Korea in Morocco's second Women's World Cup match, defender Nouhaila Benzina made history as the first player to wear a hijab while competing at a…

Under a new law under consideration in Iran, “celebrities” who defy the Islamic Republic’s hijab restrictions could find themselves facing confiscation of 10% of their total assets. The proposed bill is the latest effort by…

Receive free Iran updatesWe’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Irannews every morning. Iran has said its morality police will resume patrols to force women to wear headscarves in public, 10 months after the…

France's top administrative court on Thursday upheld a ban on women football players wearing Islamic hijab headscarves, after the issue was seized on by politicians claiming secularism was at risk.…

By AFP PARIS: France's top administrative court on Thursday upheld a ban on women football players wearing Islamic hijab headscarves after the issue was seized on by politicians claiming secularism was at risk.…

A group of Iranian students, incensed at rules imposed on June 12 requiring female students to wear a maqna’a – a conservative Islamic headscarf in black that covers the head, neck and shoulders – began a sit-in in protest.…

Issued on: 18/04/2023 - 15:49 In a new move that some Iranians are calling “religious apartheid”, authorities are refusing services and imposing fines on women who refuse…

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Veiled Iranian women attend a conservatives campaign gathering for the upcoming parliamentary elections and the upcoming vote on the Assembly of Experts, in Tehran February 24, 2016. REUTERS/Raheb Homavandi/TIMA…