morality police

A cleric walks in front of the Fatima Masumeh Shrine in Qom, Iran, February 7, 2023. (AP/Vahid Salemi)

February 21, 2023, 10:49 am

Even in Shiite heartland of Qom, Iranians quietly call for change

Though many support theocratic regime, mandatory hijab, some residents say anti-government protesters treated too harshly, women who flout dress code should be warned, not arrested

By AP

In this file photo taken on July 23, 2007, an Iranian policewoman looks on from the back of a police vehicle before the start of a crackdown to enforce Islamic dress code in the capital Tehran. (Behrouz MEHRI/AFP)

December 5, 2022, 3:30 pm

‘Too little too late’: Iranian activists brush off claims morality police abolished

Protest supporters call supposed disbandment of force a ‘PR move,’ say it doesn’t change oppressive dress code for women but simply marks switch in enforcement of law

By Stuart Williams

People burn an Iranian national flag during a demonstration denouncing the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini -- who died while in the custody of Iranian authorities -- by Iraqi and Iranian Kurds outside the UN offices in Arbil, the capital of Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region, on September 24, 2022. (Safin Hamed/AFP)

December 5, 2022, 1:16 am

Iranians in Iraq put little stock in move to dissolve morality police

Kurds who fled country say protesters don’t only want freedom from headscarf, but also abolishment of regime in Tehran, though views elsewhere mixed

By AFP

Iranians protest the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini after she was detained by the morality police, in Tehran, October 1, 2022.(AP Photo/Middle East Images, File)

December 4, 2022, 10:57 pm

Status of Iran’s controversial morality police unclear after ‘closure’ remark

Country’s chief prosecutor, Mohamed Jafar Montazeri, says force ‘had been closed,’ but state media hasn’t reported such a decision

By jack jeffery

Protesters chant in the Iranian city of Saqez, following the burial of Mahsa Amini (right), who died following her arrest by the so-called morality police, September 17, 2022. (Screenshot: Twitter; courtesy)

October 26, 2022, 12:24 pm

Iranians flock to Mahsa Amini grave 40 days after her death, despite regime warnings

Marking end of traditional mourning period, thousands filmed streaming to gravesite through roads and fields despite police warning that family must not hold event

By AFP

Iranian pro-government demonstrators hold posters of the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during their rally condemning recent anti-government protests over the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman who had been detained by the nation's morality police, in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Sept. 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)

October 10, 2022, 10:10 pm

Long before the revolution: Headcovers always took center stage in Iran’s politics

Women’s activism has persisted for over a century, as successive regimes in Tehran have told women what they can and cannot wear

By Eliz Sanasarian

A motorcycle on fire in Iran's capital Tehran, on October 8, 2022. (A picture obtained by AFP outside Iran)

October 10, 2022, 7:19 pm

UK follows US in sanctioning Iranian ‘morality police’

Foreign secretary says London ‘stands with the people of Iran who are bravely calling for accountability and fundamental human rights’

By AFP

Nika Shakarami (Wikipedia: Original publication: Unknown / Immediate source: https://www.shethepeople.tv/news/teenager-killed-in-iran-protests)

October 6, 2022, 10:42 pm

Iranian mother accuses authorities of murdering her 16-year-old daughter at protests

Mother says forensic report found Nika Shahkarami was killed by blow to her head; state reportedly prevented family from burying girl in hometown

By AFP

A woman identified as Nasi cries during a rally calling for regime change in Iran following the death of Mahsa Amini, a young woman who died after being arrested in Tehran by Iran's notorious 'morality police,' in Washington, Saturday, Oct. 1, 2022. Nasi's daughter was killed Jan. 8, 2020, when the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps shot down a Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 passenger airliner killing all 176 aboard. (AP/Cliff Owen)

October 4, 2022, 3:13 am

Biden: US to impose ‘further costs’ on Iran over protests crackdown

President says US to hold Iranian officials accountable while supporting rights of Iranians ‘to protest freely,’ gives no indication of measures being considered

By Stuart Williams

Donya Rad (R) was arrested after posting this picture of her eating breakfast in Iran without an hijab, her family said on September 30 2022 (Twitter)

September 30, 2022, 2:53 pm

Iran arrests woman shown in viral photo eating breakfast in public without hijab

Sister says Donya Rad transferred to notorious wing of Tehran’s Evin prison run by intelligence ministry amid ongoing protests of death of a woman in custody of morality police

By AFP

A woman walks with other shoppers at the Grand Bazaar in Iran's capital Tehran on September 28, 2022. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)

September 30, 2022, 3:07 am

Iran’s protesters chant from buildings amid crackdown on street demonstrations

Tehran governor claims protests have ended and security has been restored, but chants of ‘death to the dictator’ can be heard from people’s homes where it’s harder to arrest them

By AP

Iranian Americans rally in support of the Iranian resistance movement and to denounce the death of Mahsa Amini, on Capitol Hill September 28, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images via AFP)

September 29, 2022, 4:57 pm

Iranian celebrities warned against publicly promoting Mahsa Amini protests

Government official accuses media personalities of ‘fanning the flames of the riots’ triggered by death of Iranian woman after her arrest by morality police

By AFP

September 25, 2022, 1:44 am

Demonstrators return to Iran’s streets, defying deadly crackdown

Reformist party calls to disband morality police, after young woman allegedly beaten to death in custody; dozens killed, hundreds arrested in unrest

By AFP and ToI Staff

People participate in a protest against Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi outside of the United Nations on September 21, 2022 in New York City. (Stephanie Keith/Getty Images/AFP)

September 22, 2022, 7:04 pm

US sanctions Iran morality police for death of woman in custody

Treasury secretary calls on Tehran to ‘end its violence against women and violent crackdown on free expression and assembly’; her office also designates 8 senior security officials

By AFP

This combination of pictures created on September 22, 2022 shows Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and Christiane Amanpour. (Ludovic Marin and Frederick M. Brown/various sources/AFP)

September 22, 2022, 6:38 pm

CNN’s Amanpour says Raisi scrapped interview after she refused to wear headscarf

Anchor says aide to Iranian president cited the ‘situation in Iran,’ which has been roiled by deadly protests after woman who allegedly violated dress code died in custody

By ToI Staff and Agencies