Two female journalists who have been in jail since reporting on the killing of Zhina (Mahsa) Amini by Iran’s morality police Oct. 2022 have been temporarily released on bail.
A year after protests in Iran erupted over a Kurdish woman’s death, initiating the largest uprising against the country’s clerical rule since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, activists continue to fight.
A Kurdish teenage girl is in critical condition after collapsing on a Tehran metro on October 1.
Up to 7,000 Iranian schoolgirls have been poisoned in organized campus attacks in at least 28 of 31 of the country’s provinces, as reported by the Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA).
Worldwide demonstrations are taking place in support of Iran’s uprising, calling for more freedom regarding the country’s strict hijab mandate.
Iranians have been protesting the death of the 22-year-old Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini for over three weeks, despite facing internet shutdowns and violent repression.
On March 25, the Islamic Republic of Iran began its four-year term as a new member of the United Nations’ Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) — “the principal global intergovernmental body dedicated to promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment” — after being elected by secret ballot last year.
A new movement has sparked public discourse among Iranian women as they take to social media with their own #MeTooIran moments.