Islamic law

In Afghanistan, women’s beauty parlours have now been given one month to shut their doors. No reason has been given.

Iran has installed cameras in public places to identify and catch women who violate the country’s extremist dress code. 

A viral video from Iran showed an incident where two women are attacked by a man who threw yoghurt on them for not wearing hijabs. 

Iran’s morality police have been abolished, according to the Attorney General Mohammad Javad Montazeri.

Schoolgirls in Iran have taken to the streets, removing their headscarves and chanting “death to the dictator”

Two women LGBT activists, Zahra Sedighi-Hamadani and Elham Choubdar, have been sentenced to death by Iranian judicial authorities.

Demonstrations protesting the deaths of women defying Islamic law in Iran have reached Syria, while Canada places sanctions on Iran.

Another woman defying Iran’s mandatory hijab-wearing laws has reportedly been killed by the Islamic Republic’s security forces.

Ten positions of leadership in Saudi’s mosques have been appointed to women across multiple Holy Sites in Mecca and Medina.

The Saudi government arrested women’s rights activist Loujain al-Hathloul a year ago for speaking out against the country’s laws.