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UP: Girls denied entry to Moradabad college for wearing burqa; professors
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
The girls have alleged that their college was not letting them enter the college campus wearing burqa and are compelling them to remove it at the entrance gate.
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Iranian chess player warned not to return home after competing without hij
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
The 25-year-old player arrived in Spain on Tuesday after receiving what a source close to her said were warnings not to return to Iran for competing without a hijab - a headscarf mandatory under Iran's strict dress codes.
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Tunisha Sharma death: Sheezan's sister claims Tunisha's picture in Hijab i
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
The family of Sheezan Khan, the boyfriend of popular television actor Tunisha Sharma arrested on the charge of abetting her suspected suicide, on Monday refuted the allegation's of the actor's uncle that she started wearing a hijab (headscarf worn by Muslim women) from the time she met Sh
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Year-ender 2022: How a 'custodial death' took women to war against Iran's
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
The alleged custodial death of 22-year-old Iranian woman Mahsa Amini, who had come visiting her brother in Tehran on September 13, 2022, fell in the crosshairs of the country's so-called morality police instead. She was arrested, allegedly for wearing her hijab (headscarf) loosely, at the po
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Tunisha Sharma's mother suspects her daughter's death a case of murder
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Deceased TV actor Tunisha Sharma's mother Vanita Sharma on Friday suspected the former's death a murder and said that her accused co-star Sheezan Khan forced her to wear Hijab.
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Iranian Chess player competes at tournament without hijab
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Iranian Chess player Sara Khadem, also known as Sarasadat Khademalsharieh, recently took part in a tournament without wearing a hijab, CNN reported on Wednesday citing Iranian news agency Jamaran.
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Tunisha Sharma death: Actor started wearing hijab after meeting Sheezan, c
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
In an intriguing new development in the Tunisha Sharma death case, lending further credence to love jihad claims, the uncle of the popular television actor, Pawan Sharma, has claimed that her behaviour and lifestyle changed after she met Sheezan Khan, her boyfriend arrested on the charge of
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Afghan women banned from university 'for not following dress code': Taliba
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
The continuation of co-education and lack of observation of hijab by students were among the reason cited by Taliban minister Neda Mohammad Nadim for banning Afghan women from university, TOLO news reported.
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Iran arrests prominent actress Taraneh Alidoosti for supporting anti-hijab
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Alidoosti had condemned the hanging of Mohsen Shekari, who was killed in December in the first known execution linked to the protests.
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Iran abolishes 'morality police' after anti-government protests
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Iran's Attorney General Mohammad Javad Montazeri said that the morality police "was abolished by the same authorities who installed it."
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Refusal to sing national anthem not a sign of anti-hijab protest, says Ira
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
In an interview with ANI, Jebelli said, "All Iranians are free to express their opinions about different events in Iran or outside Iran but I don't think that Iranian players refusing to sing the national anthem was a sign of supporting the anti-hijab protest."
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India abstains on UN resolution to probe Iran's 'human rights violations'
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Taking to Twitter, United Nations Human Right Council said, "At its 35th special session, the @UN Human Rights Council decided to create a new fact-finding mission to investigate "alleged #HumanRightsViolations in the Islamic Republic of #Iran related to the protests that began on 16 Septemb
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