Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Noura, a 30-year-old Iranian woman raised in a religious household, wore a head-to-toe black veil known as ...

Pulitzer Prize-winner Sanaz Toossi, who grew up in Orange County, has a homecoming of sorts with the West Coast premiere of ...

The study revealed that both Hispanic and Iranian women generally favored lighter, moderately long beards over both longer ...

In December 2024, Iran passed a set of new laws to promote a "culture of chastity and hijab". If any of the Iranian women would go against these laws, they would either be sentenced to death or sent ...

Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi spent years incarcerated for political reasons. She and other human rights activists say torture and sexual violence against women are ...

Never in history have the women of a nation suffered so profound a reversal of their rights and status as the women of Iran did in 1979. Islamists and Marxists joined together to overthrow a ...

In another case in 2019, he sentenced prominent Iranian human rights lawyer and women’s rights defender Nasrin Sotoudeh to 33 years in prison and 148 lashes, according to Amnesty International.

German-Iranian Women's Rights Activist Released From Iranian Prison BERLIN (Reuters) - Nahid Taghavi, an Iranian-German women's rights activist, has been released from prison and is back in ...

BERLIN (Reuters) – Nahid Taghavi, an Iranian-German women’s rights activist, has been released from prison and is back in Germany after more than four years incarceration in Iran, Amnesty ...