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TopicIran hijab protests

Topic: Iran hijab protests

Iranian chess player who removed hijab & faced arrest at home gets Spanish citizenship

The 26-year-old told Reuters that she has no regrets over her gesture in support of the protest movement against her country's clerical leadership.

Iran resorts to new tactics–security cameras, ostracism–to deter women refusing to wear hijab

Iranian officials have also said morality police patrols would no longer spearhead the campaign against those flouting the dress codes.

For the regime’s eyes only: the powerful images used by protesting Iranian women

These photos draw on a longer history of Iranian women taking and sharing photos and videos of illegal actions—such as singing, dancing—to fight discrimination.

‘Feminist’ tattoo, no headscarf photo — Taraneh Alidoosti, Iranian actor backing students’ protest

Alidoosti's post last week came in the midst of ongoing protest against Iran's headscarf mandate for women, following 22-year-old Mahsa Amini's September death in custody of morality police.

Iran hijab protests response to systemic oppression. Police brutality will not deter women

Campus Voice is an initiative by ThePrint where young Indians get an opportunity to express their opinions on a prevalent issue.

As India gears up for Deepavali, Hindu Right press warns against ‘flare of wokism’

ThePrint’s round-up of how pro-Hindutva media covered and commented on news and topical issues over the past few weeks.

Iranian woman journalist who broke news on Mahsa Amini’s death in ‘solitary confinement’

The house of Niloofar Hamedi, an Iranian journalist specialising in women's rights, was raided by intelligence agents who arrested & confiscated her belongings, her lawyer said.

On Camera

Patel’s 1950 letter to Nehru: Find no legal power to deal with Press or men like Syama Prasad

Less than a year before the First Constitutional Amendment, Patel wrote to Nehru about Supreme Court rulings that had 'knocked the bottom out' of press control laws.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

MoD, IAF agree on some exemptions to HAL for Tejas Mk1A, but no compromise on ‘must-have’ capabilities

IAF is fine with accepting the aircraft with 'must-haves', even if some other steps remain pending, which may take at least another year, it is learnt.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.