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Three people have been detained following an altercation at a Tehran subway station that erupted over the enforcement of Iran's mandatory hijab law, a sign of the deep discontent among many Iranians over the rule.
Iranian authorities have referred the case of Masud Zeynalzadeh, who was arrested at the funeral of 17-year-old Armita Garavand, to Tehran's Revolutionary Court in an escalation of their campaign against members of the teachers' union.
Imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi has launched a hunger strike to protest against a lack of medical attention after prison officials twice blocked her access to urgently needed hospital care because she will not wear a head scarf.
Human rights media reported on November 5 that Sunni prisoner Qasem Abatebeh has been executed after serving nearly 14 years in a prison in the Iranian city of Karaj, west of Tehran.
Iranian authorities on November 5 confirmed that Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had met in recent days with the political chief of the Iran-backed Palestinian group Hamas in Tehran, confirming remarks made a day earlier by Hamas.
In a significant expansion of dress-code enforcement, Tehran has seen the deployment of "hijab enforcers" within the grounds of Tehran University and the streets surrounding Amir Kabir University, as well as key areas in the city.
An Iranian court has sentenced a woman to death for committing adultery after a man complained to the police when he found out his wife was having an affair.
The Prosecutor's Office in the northern Iranian province of Gilan said on November 3 that 27 people have been killed and 12 more hospitalized following a huge fire at a drug rehabilitation center in the city of Langrod.
The husband of Narges Mohammadi, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and prominent Iranian human rights activist, says Iranian authorities are blocking his wife's access to urgently needed medical care by twice refusing her requests to be transferred to a hospital because she will not wear a head scarf.
An Iranian court has upheld the six-month prison sentence of one teachers' union activist, while another faced his third court appearance in two months as authorities continue their crackdown on organized labor.
Iran is carrying out executions “at an alarming rate,” putting to death at least 419 people in the first seven months of the year, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in a new report, which shows a 30 percent increase in capital punishment over the same period in 2022.
Iranian security officials are reportedly exerting significant pressure on the family of Armita Garavand to change the date of a memorial ceremony for the teen, who died over the weekend due to injuries suffered in an alleged confrontation with Tehran's morality police.
Renowned Iranian actress Hengameh Ghaziani, known for her public opposition to the mandatory hijab, says she has been summoned to appear in court for her stance against the mandatory hijab law, compounding fears for her freedom after she was arrested last year for participating in a women's rights protest.
Prominent Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh has been transferred to Qarchak prison and has started a hunger and medication strike after being severely beaten while she was being arrested.
Iranian human rights activist and political detainee Narges Mohammadi has been denied medical treatment for a second time due to her refusal to wear an Islamic head scarf, or hijab.
Anti-government slogans were chanted from apartments in Tehran and other Iranian cities after 17-year-old Armita Garavand was buried on October 29. She was fatally injured in an alleged confrontation with the morality police over a head-scarf violation and was buried amid tight security in Tehran.
In a major show of defiance, Iranians have staged new anti-government demonstrations in several cities following the death of Armita Garavand, who succumbed over the weekend to injuries suffered in an alleged confrontation with Iran's morality police in the Tehran subway over a head-scarf violation.
Scores of mourners attended the burial of Iranian teenager Armita Garavand on October 29 in Tehran. The 17-year-old was fatally injured earlier this month after an alleged confrontation with Iran's morality police.
Iranian security forces have prevented the public from visiting the grave of Ali Roozbehani, a protester killed last year, and detained two family members for several hours on October 26 before releasing them.
Armita Garavand, the 17-year-old girl fatally injured in an alleged confrontation with Iran's morality police over a head-scarf violation, was buried amid tight security in Tehran on October 29.
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