Uttarakhand Sanskrit University in Haridwar is taking steps to enforce the Supreme Court's ruling on student attire following ...

So they fear that giving in to demands from women to dress as they wish could be the first nail not only in the coffin of the ...

The announcement was made by Mehri Talebi Darestani, the head of the Women and Family Department at Tehran’s Headquarters for ...

Videos show the woman arguing with security forces in Tehran after removing some of her clothes in an apparent protest of the ...

In contrast, the Islamic Republic of Iran has mandated the hijab since ... Opponents of laws banning the hijab maintain that ...

Iran has opened a new mental health clinic in Tehran, aimed at treating women who resist wearing the hijab. The “Clinic for Quitting Hijab Removal” is part of the government’s broader strategy to ...

In Iran, plans for a "deprivation clinic" for women who do not adhere to the strict dress code are being pushed forward. The ...

The Iranian state is planning to open a treatment clinic for women who flout the mandatory hijab laws that require them to ...

The mental health clinic is seen as a project to promote “dignity, modesty, chastity, and hijab”. Darestani however also mentioned that it is up to women to visit the clinic and it is not mandatory.

The ‘Clinic for Quitting Hijab Removal’ will be for the scientific and psychological treatment of removing the hijab, ...

Iranian women who resist wearing the hijab are to be given treatment at a specialist mental health clinic in Tehran.

Witness reports and Iran’s systematic use of punitive psychiatry to undermine dissent contradict government claims that the ...