Iranian authorities have banned a film festival that put out a publicity poster featuring an actress who was not wearing a hijab, state media reported on July 23.
Three prominent actresses who were sentenced this week for not wearing the hijab in public were diagnosed as having "antisocial" and "anti-family" personality disorders by a Tehran court, a practice that top psychiatrists said was unfathomable.
Iran's Foreign Ministry summoned the Danish ambassador to protest against "the desecration of the Koran in Copenhagen," the ministry tweeted on July 22.
Imprisoned Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny has been placed in a punitive solitary confinement cell for the 17th time since last August, his lawyer Vadim Kobzev said on July 21.