Hijab

UN says Taliban arrest 30 women for violating hijab rules in Afghanistan

"The arrests have heightened fear and apprehension among women and girls across Afghanistan," UN Women said, adding that many of the women had since been released.

|ByREUTERS
FILE PHOTO: Two Afghan women in interview with Reuters.
A Basij militia member patrols in Tehran following a US strike, March 5, 2026; illustrative.

What is Basij? The Islamic Republic's 'iron fist' to suppress protesters - explainer

Basij, a key paramilitary militia under the IRGC, has a violent history of suppressing protests, enforcing morality laws, and committing human rights abuses, including torture and sexual abuse.

|ByJAMES GENN
IRANIANS GATHER while blocking a street during a protest in Kermanshah, Iran on January 8, 2026.

'Mercenaries for foreigners': Khamenei accuses Iranian protesters of acting on behalf of Trump

The demonstrations, which began in Tehran last month, have spread to all of Iran's 31 provinces but have yet to reach the scale of the 2022-3 unrest sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini.

|ByREUTERS, ALEX WINSTON
High school students studying classes at school

Austrian lower house passes headscarf ban for under-14s in schools

Austria's lower house of parliament passed the ban despite uncertainty over whether such legislation is unconstitutional, as a previous ban was ruled unconstitutional five years ago.

|ByREUTERS

Iran shutters hundreds of business in hijab crackdown

After months of protests, Iranian police announced that they were amending how they enforce hijab regulations.

APRIL 17, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Iranian women walk on a street amid the implementation of the new hijab surveillance in Tehran, Iran, April 15, 2023.

Iranian girls arrested for dancing without hijabs on TikTok

In Iran, it is forbidden for women to dance in public, and they have to wear hijabs in public.

MARCH 19, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Five Iranian teenagers dance to Selena Gomez's "Calm Down".

Iran's judiciary says women will be punished for violating Islamic dress code

The September 16 death of Iranian Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini while in police custody for flouting the dress code triggered nationwide protests.

MARCH 6, 2023ByREUTERS
Iranians walk through Tehran Bazaar, in Tehran, Iran December 5, 2022.

World Hijab Day Observed in the Post-Mahsa Amini Era

Women are divided on whether to modernize and normalize the hijab or oppose its use

FEBRUARY 1, 2023ByDEBBIE MOHNBLATT/THE MEDIA LINE
high-fashion hijab designed by Haneen, 25, in northern Israel

The US should back Iran's protesters seeking regime change

It is time for America to treat the threat of Iran as a first-tier problem, which means we need a different regime in Tehran in the long run.

JANUARY 28, 2023ByERIC R. MANDEL
Iranian Americans rally outside the White House on September 24, 2022, in support of anti-regime protests in Iran following the death of Mahsa Amini.

Iran sentences woman to 10 years for removing hijab, calls it prostitution

The Tehran court found her guilty of “encouraging corruption and prostitution” for her rejection of the obligatory Islamic dress code.

DECEMBER 27, 2022ByBENJAMIN WEINTHAL
Basij militia forces attend a meeting with Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran, Iran November 26, 2022.

'Step by step, the regime will lose control’: An interview with an Iranian revolutionary

BEHIND THE LINES: Kawthar Fatahi, 33, a former teacher from in Iran’s Western Azerbaijan Province, is now a leading activist and organizer for the Iranian Kurdish Komala Party.

DECEMBER 9, 2022ByJONATHAN SPYER
A KURDISH Komala fighter looks toward the Iranian border.

Iran reviewing mandatory hijab law - report

The women of Iran have been legally required to adhere to Muslim modesty laws, loose clothing and covered hair, since 1981, two years after the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

DECEMBER 6, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Iranian women chant during a protest condemning the Shiraz attack and unrest in Tehran, Iran October 28, 2022

'Women, life, freedom:' Defying Taliban, Afghan women remove burkas

The women, who were wearing headscarves, were being blocked from entering Badakhshan University for not wearing burkas.

OCTOBER 31, 2022ByTZVI JOFFRE
A member of Taliban speaks with female students outside the Kabul Education University in Kabul, Afghanistan, February 26, 2022.

WATCH: This is the education that Iranian girls are forced into

Schoolchildren in Iran recently took to protesting pro-government material in school, ripping up textbooks and stomping on them.

OCTOBER 28, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
A teacher is seen while teaching online school classes to students at their homes, as schools are still closed, following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease in April 2020. Note the portraits of the supreme leaders in the front of the classroom.