Iran increasingly relies on electronic surveillance and the public to inform on women refusing to wear the country's mandatory headscarf in public, U.N. report says.

FILE - An Iranian woman, without a mandatory headscarf, or hijab, walks in downtown Tehran, Iran, June 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File) By JAMEY KEATEN and JON GAMBRELL – Associated Press ...

Masumi Tsunoda, a 45-year-old woman in Maebashi, Gunma Prefecture, who is an alopecia areata patient, was asked to design a headscarf for Licca-chan. Tsunoda contracted the disease 10 years ago.

GENEVA — Iran is increasingly relying on electronic surveillance and the public to inform on women refusing to wear the country's mandatory headscarf in public, as hard-liners push for harsher ...

In February the French Parliament's upper chamber, the Senate, backed a bill that would ban the wearing of the headscarf in sports competitions. It is a sign of sport has become the latest excuse ...

UN Report Warns Iran Is Stepping up Electronic Surveillance of Women to Enforce Headscarf Laws GENEVA (AP) — Iran is increasingly relying on electronic surveillance and the public to inform on ...

GENEVA (AP) — Iran increasingly relies on electronic surveillance and the public to inform on women refusing to wear the country's mandatory headscarf in public, even as hard-liners push for ...