Last fall, Iran's parliament approved a new hijab and chastity law that would impose even tougher punishments on women violating dress codes: steeper fines and prison sentences of up to 15 years.

The Iranian film Bidad has won the Special Jury Award at the Karlovy Vary Festival. Director Soheil Beiraghi, who faces ...

IndieWire looks at recent films from Jafar Panahi, Nader Saei-Var, and more to consider how hijab is represented in Iranian cinema. How Iranian Movies Show Hijab Pre- and Post- Woman, Life, Freedom ...

Protests spread after 22-year-old woman's death in Iran: What to know. Mahsa Amini died in custody after she was arrested by Iran's morality police for allegedly not abiding by its hijab rules.

Women cross a street at Valiasr square in Tehran, Iran, on Aug. 16, 2021. ... The Iranian women's rights activist told ABC News that the letter shows the "perspective" of what officials plan.

Nasrin was unjustly and cruelly imprisoned for her legal work representing Iranian human rights and women’s rights activists from 2010 through 2013 (when our children were very young), and again ...