A U.N. fact-finding mission into Iran's treatment of women reported that the Islamic republic was resorting to extreme ...

Iranian authorities are deploying drones, facial recognition technology, and mobile applications to monitor and punish women ...

Iran is deploying aerial drones, facial recognition technology, and a mobile application to enforce its mandatory hijab laws, ...

The report highlights Iran’s escalating reliance on technology to monitor and punish women defying the mandatory dress code.

Authoritarian regimes often enforce strict clothing laws to assert their dominance over their citizens' physical and ...

The ‘Nazer’ app is a government-backed tool that allows citizens and police to report women for alleged violations of hijab laws.

Iranian officials have flogged a popular singer who posted a song online urging women to remove their mandatory headscarves ...

An Iranian sports climber, widely praised in 2022 for competing without a hijab at the height of nationwide protests, has ...

Rights groups have been outraged over the hijab law and the cruel ways it is enforced. In December, Amnesty International ...

Iran increasingly relies on electronic surveillance and the public to inform on women refusing to wear the country's mandatory headscarf in public, even as hard-liners push for harsher penalties for t ...

The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department is asking the FBI to investigate whether the reported March 7 assault of a 15-year-old Ardrey Kell High School student for wearing a hijab by another ...