Iran’s parliament on Wednesday passed draconian new legislation imposing much harsher penalties on women who breach hijab rules, days after the one-year anniversary of mass protests sparked by the ...

ALBAWABA - A few days after the story of the Iranian student Ahou Daryae, who stripped to underwear after being harassed by university morality police over her hijab, a schoolgirl in Iran jumped to ...

The Taliban have arrested women in Afghanistan for wearing “bad hijab” for the first time since coming to power, according to voice notes received Thursday by the AP from a spokesperson from the ...

Iran is trying to reimpose strict dress codes months after a wave of unrest in which women and girls removed their headscarves in protest following the death of a young woman who had been detained by ...

Wania Tayyab, 15, remembers the first time she wore the hijab, on a trip to Five Below when she was 12 or 13. “My mom said, ‘You’re growing, why don’t you try wearing hijab?’” Tayyab says she was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A female student at a university in Tehran stripped to her underwear in a defiant act of protest on Saturday A female student at a ...

Weeks after a university student stripped on campus in Iran for refusing to wear the hijab, causing a stir in the Islamic Republic. According to various media reports Iran is working towards ...

WASHINGTON — For Sameeha Ahmad, the decision to put on the hijab came in psychology class at the University of Maryland. She hadn't worn one for five years. Her mom did, as did her sister. But like ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban have ...