Shiite Muslim women mourn during a ceremony commemorating the death anniversary of Fatimah bint Muhammad, also known as Fatimah Al-Zahraa, the daughter of Muhammad, prophet of the Islamic religion, at ...

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Wednesday delivered a staunch defence of the hijab as more women flout the Islamic republic's strict dress code, prompting criticism from ...

A female student stripped to her underwear outside her university in Iran in what some student and rights groups say was a protest against the country’s strict Islamic dress code. A video circulating ...

“The lack of will to promulgate a law approved by the parliament and the failure to implement the Islamic Penal Code have ...

A draft law aimed at encouraging Islamic dress raised fears Saturday that Iran’s hard-line government plans to re-impose veils and head-to-toe overcoats on women who have shirked the restrictions for ...

Last month, Iran launched an aggressive new crackdown on women who defy the country's strict Islamic dress code. Amnesty International dubbed it a war on women. The human rights group says tactics ...

It has been a legal requirement to have a veil mandatorily since the 1979 Islamic revolution, which had replaced the ...

RABAT, Dec 9 (Reuters) - The man set to become Morocco's first Islamist prime minister said on Friday his government would not try to make women dress more modestly. Abdelilah Benkirane is to lead a ...