Morocco's Nouhaila Benzina has gone down in history as the first-ever football player to wear a hijab (Islamic headscarf) in the FIFA Women's World Cup.The 25-year-old defender participated with her country's national team against South Korea on July...

Iranian authorities on Friday executed three men convicted of violence against the Islamic republic's security forces during protests triggered by Mahsa Amini's death in custody last year, the judiciary said.Majid Kazemi, Saleh Mirhashemi and Saeed Y...

By AFPIran's judiciary has ordered police to "firmly punish" people who violate the country's hijab law, a news agency reported Tuesday, after nearly four months of deadly protests against the measures.Demonstrations have swept Iran since the Septemb...

Turkey's Islamic-rooted ruling party will submit a constitutional amendment to parliament next week enshrining women's right to wear headscarves at work and in daily life, reviving a hugely divisive issue in the officially secular state.The highly-po...

By AFP An Iranian bank manager who served an unveiled woman has been fired, local media reported on Sunday, as demonstrations triggered by the mandatory head covering rule shake the Islamic republic. Women in the country of more than 80 m...

Iranian climber Elnaz Rekabi has thanked her supporters at home and abroad following her return to a hero's welcome in Tehran this week after competing abroad without a hijab.Rekabi, 33, wore only a headband during a competition event at the Asian Ch...

Rights groups voiced alarm Tuesday over the extent of an Iranian crackdown on a Kurdish-populated city that has become a hub for protests, as oil refinery workers pressed strikes in a new tactic.Iran's clerical authorities have been shaken by over th...

By AFPThree people have been killed during protests in Iran's Kurdistan province over the death of a young woman after she was arrested by "morality police", the region's governor said on Tuesday.Public anger has grown in Iran since authorities on Fr...

Although Islam orders women to wear a veil or hijab (headcover), it totally rejects using violence when it comes to applying its rulings, a basic Islamic rule that has reportedly not been followed by Iranian police in dealing with unveiled women.Mahs...

By AFPSecurity forces on Saturday fired tear gas to disperse protesters in northwest Iran after the death of a woman arrested in Tehran by the Islamic republic's "morality police", local media reported.Mahsa Amini, 22, was on a visit with her family...