Elnaz Rekabi gained global attention in October 2022 when she took part in championships in South Korea without wearing the headscarf required for women in the Islamic republic. She returned home ...

On the streets of Iranian cities, it’s becoming more common to see a woman passing by without a mandatory headscarf, or hijab, after the second anniversary of the death of Mahsa Amini and the ...

Mehdi Yarrahi's 2022 song "Soroode Zan" (Woman's Anthem) also became a protest anthem. A prominent Iranian pop singer who made a song urging women to remove their headscarves said Wednesday that ...

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Rights groups have been outraged over the hijab law and the cruel ways it is enforced. In December, Amnesty International said that Iranian authorities had imposed new draconian laws against veil ...

But revealing less of her body by wearing a hijab — a head scarf — along with baggy pants and loosefitting long-sleeve shirts presented its own conundrum on the basketball court.

The committee which proposed the hijab rule change comprises seven Labour MPs, one ex-Labour MP who now sits as an independent, two Lib Dems and one Conservative. Committee chairwoman Sarah Owen said: ...

Possessing photos of a Muslim woman without her hijab should be made a criminal offence, MPs have proposed. The Commons' women and equalities committee said pictures of a Muslim woman without her ...

in her chic £119 cream pleated skirt (or $250 if you're reading this in the US), and it's from a brand I didn't expect. It turns out Cat's skirt is from Phase Eight. When I think of Phase Eight I ...