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An Iranian woman received 74 lashes for refusing to wear the hijab, defying the strict dress code even as she was taken to be whipped.

Iranian authorities have whipped a woman 74 times for "violating public morals" and fined her for not covering her head, the judiciary said.

33-year-old was charged with 'encouraging permissiveness' after several Tehran outings

The Women’s Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran vehemently condemns the flogging of Ms. Roya Heshmati on the fictitious charge of

THIS PAGE WILL BE UPDATED WITH THE LATEST NEWS UPDATE: 7:30 AM Iranian Regime Officials Increasingly Worried About Upcoming Elections As Iranian regime

A shop owner in Iran has been sentenced to two years in prison after publishing photos without a headscarf, the US-based human rights network, HRANA, said on Friday.

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Authoritarian Belarusian leader Alyaksandr Lukashenka has signed a law tightening the activities of religious organizations by forcing re-registration and restricting associations to older groups with nationwide presences, his office said January 3.

Three activists from the Oyan, Qazaqstan (Wake Up, Kazakhstan) movement were arrested in Almaty on January 3 after they held a protest against the jailing on December 16 of three of their colleagues.

Parajanov was imprisoned by the Soviets and his films were suppressed, but his magical vision and his bold championing of folk tradition endure long after the fall of the USSR. We celebrated the unique filmmaker in our March 2010 issue.