The most prominent Islamic scholar in Gaza has issued a rare but powerful fatwa condemning Hamas’s attacks on October 7 last year, where Hamas fighters killed 1,200 Israelis and took hundreds of Israelis and foreigners hostage, which also triggered a devastating war that killed over 45,000 Gazans.
Iran’s state Islamic body announced on November 12th that it will open a specialist mental health clinic in the Iranian capital, Tehran, to treat Iranian women who resist the regime’s mandatory hijab laws and refuse to wear headscarves.
Iran sets up mental health clinic to ‘treat’ women who refuse to wear hijab. I’m sure these women will be treated just as well as they treat the gay community. pic.twitter.com/ZfTdPFw8u4
Libya is seeking to reintroduce the morality police to the streets of its capital, Tripoli, to reinforce its "society's traditions,” along with a rollout of a massive crackdown on individual freedoms and women’s rights, sparking criticisms and concerns among human rights advocates and ordinary Libyans.
A young Iranian woman was arrested for stripping off her clothes in protest outside her university after she was reportedly assaulted and harassed for improperly wearing her hijab, considered to be a violation of the Islamic Republic’s strict hijab laws.
The Taliban announced on October 14th that they would implement a new law that would ban news media and journalists in Afghanistan from taking and publishing any image of all living beings.
Concerns have been raised over the Netherlands’ police force after reports emerged that some Dutch police officers are refusing to guard Jewish buildings and protect Jewish community events for ideological reasons.
An Iranian woman and a mother of two was left paralyzed after being shot by Iranian police over an alleged violation of the regime’s mandatory hijab laws.
A leaked internal document written by three members of Iran’s security forces revealed that an Iranian female teenager arrested for protesting against the regime was sexually assaulted and brutally murdered.
Iran erupts in outrage as BBC World's report on Nika Shakarami, an icon of the Woman, Life, Freedom movement, reveals she was sexually assaulted and murdered by security forces during the nationwide 2022 protests. https://t.co/NrFfM4867y
A dissident rapper and one of the icons of Iran’s 2022 protests against the Islamic Republic, which began after the death of Mahsa Amini under morality police custody after her arrest for “improper hijab,” has been sentenced to death for “waging war against God.”
Seven men from a minority community in the city of Belagavi in the southwestern Indian state of Karnataka were arrested for assaulting two cousins after they mistook them for an interfaith couple. Two minors were also imprisoned for the alleged offense.
The incident occurred at the city’s Kote Lake Park around 3 PM on January 6.
Karnataka: ‘Moral’ police attack cousins mistaking them to be interfaith couple, 7 arrested https://t.co/c9nRz78wi3
