Oppression on Women

In reaction to what is being termed "increasing defiance" of the compulsory wearing of hijabs, Iran has hired 2,000 new "morality police," the Telegraph reported ...

Figures from Iran suggest child-marriage is rampant in the country, with girls younger than 14 forced to take husbands

Earlier this week, Mohammad Ali Najafi, a former mayor of Tehran, shot and killed his second wife, Mitra Ostad. Polygamy is legal in the Islamic ...

An ultra-conservative ayatollah in Iran has suggested that the state broadcaster should replace female presenters with male anchormen

It may sound like a fictional dystopia, but it is not. This is the reality for millions of women in Iran, where the state heavily ...

Iranian authorities have arrested 15 young men and women at a mixed-gender private party amid a crackdown on behavior deemed to be un-Islamic, the state-run ...

Female musicians were banned from playing in a charity concert in Qazvin. They were not allowed to even sit among the audience

Iran’s Cyber Police have blocked several accounts owned by Iranian street musicians on Instagram, the state-run Tabnak website reported on May 24. Asou Kahzadi, Naghmeh ...

A judicial official in the province of Hamedan said that 1,596 child brides married in the south central province last year

A female singer is being prosecuted in Iran for a solo performance during a sightseeing tour of the village of Abyaneh