Young Iranians have been filming themselves knocking turbans off passing clerics’ heads to protest the country’s hardline hijab laws following the death of Mahsa Amini.

ALMATY, Kazakhstan — Iran’s top female chess player will not return home after competing in two world championship tournaments this week while not wearing a head scarf.

The hijab “will be the main issue and the fight will not be about scarves only.” Sorayya, 33, said she is already fighting for a broader goal by going without the headscarf.

SIMON: The hijab has been enforced for women in Iran since after the Islamic Revolution in 1979. Why do we see such massive nationwide protests now? RAD: Well, there were protests starting from ...

For Muslim women, wearing the hijab can bring a sense of pride, but it can also attract racism as misconceptions and assumptions prevail. So, let's set the record straight.

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 ...

After realizing the girl was not wearing a hijab underneath, Ms. Herman “immediately brushed the hood back to cover all the student’s hair and apologized,” according to the state filing.

Many women in Iran who have disobeyed hijab rules say they'll remain defiant There are women in Iran who are continuing to flout mandatory headscarf rules — even though the government's so ...

Jamileh Alamolhoda, wife of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, said country's new hijab law done "out of respect for women" following the anniversary of Mahsa Amini's death.

While she and her family are Muslims, the increasing number of women wearing the hijab – the Muslim headscarf known locally as jilbab – either voluntarily or due to social pressure, worries her.

She says she wore the hijab for nine years after moving to Saudi Arabia at the age of 15, and "spent eight of them trying to take it off". One of the reasons it was so hard was because her family ...

President Ebrahim Raisi said on Saturday that the hijab was the law in Iran after a viral video showed a man throwing yoghurt at two unveiled women in a shop near a holy Shi'ite Muslim city.