After attending the funeral Armita Geravand, the teenage girl who died after being injured in an alleged encounter with police on Tehran s metro, Iranian authorities arrested a leading human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh
She is remembered as a women’s rights activist and a reformer. But her writings and story also percolated into the popular imagination in India and live on.
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Iran Hijab Laws: A court in Tehran province sentenced another woman to spend a month cleaning corpses in a morgue when she was caught driving without a hijab. | World News
Just weeks before the one-year anniversary of the major protests caused by Mahsa Amini's death, Iranian authorities are preparing a new Bill on hijab-wearing that experts fear would put unprecedentedly harsh punitive measures into law, according to C