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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 528

Mahsa Amini

An Iranian woman without a mandatory headscarf, or hijab, flashes a victory sign as she walks at the old main bazaar of Tehran, Iran, June 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)
March 14, 2025, 6:21 pm
UN report says Iran stepping up electronic surveillance of women to enforce hijab laws
Tehran using drones, facial recognition software and public vigilantes to identify women not wearing head covering; report points to ‘disturbing pattern’ of deaths of protesters
By Jamey Keaten and Jon Gambrell
A storefront in a mall in Tehran filmed by an Iranian dissident. (Channel 12 screenshot used in accordance with article 27a of the Copyright Law)
March 9, 2025, 12:27 pm
Iranians film luxurious lifestyle of those connected to regime for Israeli news outlet
Experts say Iranians risked execution by sending footage to Channel 12; ‘We love Israel… Iranian women fell in love with Israeli soldiers,’ Baha’i woman says in report
By ToI Staff
Placards with photos of Iranian Nika Shakarami (R) and Donya Farhadi, both believed to be victims of the Iranian security forces, are seen on a fence during a rally against executions in Iran outside the Consulate General of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Frankfurt am Main, western Germany, on October 31, 2024 (Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV / AFP)
February 20, 2025, 10:54 am
Iran executed at least 975 people in 2024 in ‘horrifying escalation,’ rights groups say
Report says 17% increase over 2023; watchdog director says spike seen in last 3 months of year came ‘as the threat of war between Iran and Israel escalated’
By AFP
A WhatsApp icon is displayed on an iPhone. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, File)
December 24, 2024, 7:50 pm
Iran votes to lift ban on WhatsApp, Google Play
Facebook, X, YouTube, Telegram remain blocked as 136 lawmakers pen letter warning lifting ban on WhatsApp would be a ‘gift to Iran’s enemies’
By Payam DOOST MOHAMADI
File: Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi in the music video for his protest song 'Mouse Hole,' uploaded to YouTube on July 28, 2021. (Screen capture: YouTube/Toomaj Salehi, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
December 2, 2024, 6:34 pm
Dissident Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi released after death sentence overturned
Artist completes one-year jail term after conviction for publicly backing nationwide protests sparked by death in custody of Mahsa Amini
By Agencies
In this photo provided by Fars News Agency, Iranian Revolutionary Guard Gen. Abbas Nilforoushan addresses a meeting in Tehran, Iran, February 5, 2024. (Elaheh Javan, Fars News Agency via AP)
September 28, 2024, 7:13 pm
Senior IRGC officer among the dead in Israeli strike on Beirut that killed Nasrallah
Abbas Nilforoushan was deputy commander of Guards operations, was sanctioned by US for being ‘directly in charge of protest suppression’ after death of Mahsa Amini in police custody
By Agencies and ToI Staff
A picture obtained from the Iranian Mizan News Agency on October 16, 2022 shows empty bunk beds inside the notorious Evin prison, northwest of the Iranian capital Tehran. (Koosha Mahshid Falahi / Mizan / AFP)
September 17, 2024, 11:06 am
Iran releases Austrian citizen jailed for unspecified crime – report
Imprisoned in 2022, Christian Weber was handed over to his country’s ambassador in Tehran, according to the Islamic Republic’s Mizan news agency
By Agencies
Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian gestures as he speaks to reporters during his press conference in Tehran on September 16, 2024. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)
September 16, 2024, 9:03 pm
Iran’s new president vows to ensure morality police don’t ‘bother’ women
Speaking on second anniversary of death of Mahsa Amini, Masoud Pezeshkian says controversial force ‘not supposed to confront’ women; also says Tehran does not want fight with US
By AFP and ToI Staff
US demonstrators carry a large photo of Mahsa Amini during a protest against the Iranian regime, in Los Angeles, on October 22, 2022, following the death of Amini in the custody of the Islamic Republic's notorious "morality police." (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)
September 15, 2024, 8:34 pm
34 female prisoners hunger strike in Iran for anniversary of Mahsa Amini’s death
Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi’s foundation says strike is ‘in solidarity with the protesting people of Iran, against the government’s oppressive policies’
By AFP
This UGC image posted on Twitter reportedly on October 26, 2022 shows an unveiled woman standing on top of a vehicle as thousands make their way towards Aichi cemetery in Saqez, Mahsa Amini's home town in the western Iranian province of Kurdistan, to mark 40 days since her death. (Photo by UGC / AFP)
September 15, 2024, 1:25 pm
Two years after Mahsa Amini protests, Iran restores order but not legitimacy
Activists hope 2022 death of woman in custody who allegedly violated dress code won’t be in vain, but many are still reeling from the brutal crackdown on demonstrators
By Stuart Williams
Iranian women without a mandatory headscarf, or hijab, walk past a banner showing missiles being launched from Iranian map in northern Tehran, Iran, April 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
September 14, 2024, 1:52 pm
Some Iranian women take off hijabs as anniversary of Mahsa Amini’s death approaches
Defiance comes despite what UN calls ‘expanded repressive measures, policies’ by theocracy; one says her ‘quasi-courage’ is due to Amini: ‘We have to protect this as an achievement’
By Jon Gambrell
Illustrative: Women walk on a market street in Tehran, Iran, on August 8, 2024. (AFP)
September 13, 2024, 9:08 pm
UN-appointed experts accuse Iran of stepping up repression of women
Independent fact-finding missions particularly concerned by ‘apparent new pattern’ of sentencing to death women activists who oppose hijab requirements
By AFP
Iranian women not wearing their mandatory headscarf, or hijab, walk in Tehran, Iran, August 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)
August 15, 2024, 12:08 pm
Iranian police shoot woman while trying to seize her car over hijab violation
Arezou Badri, a mother of two, is under arrest in a police hospital, likely paralyzed; authorities claim she was trying to escape an impound order for her car
By Jon Gambrell
Iranians protest 22-year-old woman Mahsa Amini's death after she was detained by the morality police, in Tehran, September 20, 2022. (AP/ File)
August 6, 2024, 4:19 pm
Iran executes man accused of killing security officer during Mahsa Amini protests
Reza Rasaei, 34, hanged for murder of Revolutionary Guard agent during 2022’s ‘Woman, Life, Freedom’ protests; Amnesty International says his confession was obtained by torture
By Agencies and ToI Staff
In this photo taken by an individual not employed by the Associated Press and obtained by the AP outside Iran, Iranians protests the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, in Tehran, October 27, 2022. (AP Photo, File)
July 7, 2024, 4:28 pm
Iran arrests lawyer who criticized regime’s crackdown on women’s rights protests
Day after reformist wins presidency, Mohsen Borhani is held following his support for 2022 demonstrations sparked by death of Mahsa Amini
By AP
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