It is prohibited for a woman to sing and dance in public. But at the centre of this systematic oppression is the compulsory hijab law. In the aftermath of the countrywide women-led protests of ...

Screenshot from Parastoo Ahmadi YouTube Parastoo Ahmadi, a 27-year-old Iranian singer, was released from custody after her arrest for performing without a hijab during an online concert.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Iranian women, without wearing their mandatory Islamic headscarves, walk in northern Tehran, Iran, Friday ...

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An Iranian underground singer and her band members have been arrested for streaming a live performance on YouTube without wearing a hijab. Parastoo Ahmadi and her two band members were arrested ...

A woman was arrested in Iran after she posted a video of herself singing without a hijab on YouTube, even though the Iranian parliament passed a new, stricter law on women's modesty that rights ...

Iran's National Security Council has paused the implementation of the controversial "hijab and chastity law", which had been due to come into force on Friday. President Massoud Pezeshkian called ...

On Thursday, the judiciary had filed a case regarding Ahmady’s concert performance, in which she performed wearing a long black sleeveless and collarless dress, but no hijab. She was accompanied ...

Iran on Saturday arrested a female singer for not wearing a hijab while performing during an online concert on YouTube. A case was filed against the woman on Thursday following her performance on ...

As Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei grapples with the knowledge that his proxy terrorist groups throughout the Middle East are falling one by one, either through war with Israel or ...