The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) said the candidate who faced discrimination over the use of hijab at a Lagos centre where she sat the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) was allowed the entire two hours to complete her exam. A statement by JAMB spokesperson, Fabian Benjamin, said the clarification became necessary as information … Read more
Iran has begun intensifying its crackdown on hijab restrictions in several cities in the past week, with violent arrests reported across the country by opposition groups and human rights agencies. The intensified assault on women across Iran comes after the regime announced the “Nour Project.” The project, aimed at “dealing with anomalies,” has involved … Read more
An exam supervisor was suspended in Gujarat’s Ankleshwar city of Bharuch district after he was found guilty of asking hijab-clad students to remove their headscarves during the Senior Secondary Certificate (SSC) board exam. The incident occurred on Wednesday, March 13, during the Maths exams at Lions School in Ankleshwar, The Indian Express reported. The suspension was … Read more
A study conducted by the Iranian Culture and Islamic Guidance Ministry that was leaked to Persian press abroad revealed that the majority of Iranians wish for a secular government, Iran international reported last week. The survey asked some 15,800 Iranians aged 18 and up. This study is the most recent in a series of … Read more
Iranian women are refusing to comply with hijab rules in Iran, ABC News reported, as reporters recently conducted an investigation in Tehran. Not wearing a hijab is punishable by the Iranian morality police, who generally patrol the streets of Iran. “We Iranian girls are not afraid of anything anymore,” said Maedeh, a 26-year-old sports … Read more
Iran’s judiciary has opened a new case against two jailed female journalists for appearing without a hijab upon their temporary release from prison, the judiciary’s Mizan news agency reported on Monday. Niloofar Hamedi and Elaheh Mohammadi, respectively sentenced to 13 and 12 years in prison for their coverage of the death in custody of … Read more
The Taliban has been arresting women for not wearing a hijab “properly”, according to its Vice and Virtue Ministry. However, it is not yet clear how many women have been put behind bars for the same. They reportedly began arresting women soon after they took over Afghanistan in August 2021 for not following the strict … Read more
A Kurdish-Iranian woman named Roya Heshmati was whipped 74 times after a photo of her was published a few months ago in which she was seen not wearing a hijab in Tehran, Iranian human rights activists reported on Saturday. Heshmati has been an outspoken critic of the Islamic regime’s hijab law. In an account … Read more
Plainclothes hijab enforcers have been searching the personal bags and the phones of citizens at Tehran’s Theatr-E Shahr metro station, the Iranian Jamaran news site reported on Tuesday. The enforcers filmed citizens in the station, looked through their phones, photographing their mobile registry codes, and searched their bags. A Jamaran correspondent asked one of … Read more
Dr. Fatemeh Rajaei-Rad, a professor and surgeon, was fired from the Babol University of Medical Sciences a little over a month after she attended an award ceremony for doctors without wearing a hijab, the doctor announced on her Instagram story on Tuesday. During the ceremony in late October, Rajaei-Rad was honored as an exemplary … Read more
