Women walk on the streets of Tehran as the country's morality police resume hijab patrols in Iran on Iran’s parliament would work on finalizing the text and voting on the bill “in the next two months,” Extreme punitive measures The hijab has long been a point of contention in Iran. Iran has traditionally considered Article 368 of its Islamic penal code as the hijab law, which states A 12-member council with considerable power in Iran, the Guardian Council is charged with making sure

By Sebastian Usher and Leo Sands Protesters in London campaign against Iran's use of the death penalty According to the Iran Human Rights Group they were among 32 people executed in the past week alone. Rights groups report that Iran also executes more women than any other country, the majority of whom On Wednesday, the Iran Human Rights Group says former child bride Soheila Abadi was hanged in prison of 2022 - more than double the number executed over the equivalent period in the previous year.

it will ban the wearing of the burqa, a full-body veil that covers the face as well, and close more than Weerasekera also said the government plans to ban more than 1,000 Islamic schools that he said were flouting banned in 2019 after the Easter Sunday bombing of churches and hotels by armed fighters that killed more than

temporarily banned in 2019 after the bombing of churches and hotels by armed fighters that killed more than it will ban the wearing of the burqa, a full-body veil that covers the face as well, and close more than Weerasekera also said the government plans to ban more than 1,000 Islamic schools that he said were flouting banned in 2019 after the Easter Sunday bombing of churches and hotels by armed fighters that killed more than

which identifies as a Christian militia in Iraq but has Shiite Muslim members and is closely tied to Iran towns in the country’s Christian heartland, displacing Christian mayors and officials on behalf of Iran A militia leader closely linked to Iran, Rayan al-Kildani, has removed Christian officials in the historic Maenza told VOA al-Kildani has been working to install local leaders who agree with Iran’s vision for “Rayan al-Kildani has provided his support for a range of pro-Iran political forces in Iraq to get their

Damaged homes in Roshankouh, Iran. The village in Mazandaran Province, where Baha’i have lived for more than a century, was raided as part By Farnaz Fassihi Iran has begun a sweeping crackdown on its Baha’i community, a long-persecuted religious There were less than a handful of houses belonging to Muslim families, residents added. Dugal and interviews with members of the faith inside and outside Iran.

The name loosely translates to the Vigil for the Authentic and Fearless Seekers of Danger. year alone, the group estimated that, on average, seven LGBTQ people were murdered each month, with transgender Earlier this month, the Trans Murder Monitoring project found that 74 percent of all documented murders of transgender or gender-diverse people took place in Latin America. tradition, the muxes are their own distinct community, similar to but separate from categories like “transgender

failed to effectively address violence and entrenched discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Many said family rejection and discrimination led to economic marginalization, particularly for trans Pricila P., a trans woman from El Salvador, said police forced her off a bus and beat her. ruling in July 2020, a court in El Salvador convicted three police officers of murdering Camila Díaz, a trans through third countries before arriving at the US border; and a policy of transferring Salvadoran and

Exhumed graves at a mass burial site in Izium, Ukraine. Credit: Nicole Tung for The New York Times KHARKIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian police have recovered 534 bodies of civilians in territory recaptured by the Ukrainian Army since early September, Serhii Bolvinov, head of the investigative department of the regional police force in Kharkiv, said at a news briefing on Thursday. The bodies included 226 women and 19 children. Most of the civilian bodies recovered — 447 — were found in a mass burial site in Izium. The police have also discovered 22 locations that they suspect were used as torture chambers in areas of Kharkiv Province that were recently freed from Russian control, he said. Investigators have been gathering documents and other evidence from the sites and witness testimony, including from former detainees. “Russian units set up such places of detention of civilians and prisoners of war in almost all the settlements where they were based,” Mr. Bolvinov said. Ukrainian troops have recaptured nearly 500 towns and villages since Sept. 7 in a sweeping counterattack that has pushed Russian forces out of most of Kharkiv Province after nearly seven months of occupation. “The most common torture techniques were electric shocks and severe beatings with sticks and other objects,” Mr. Bolvinov said. “There are cases of pulling out nails and using gas masks to restrict breathing.” Most of the victims were residents who were detained for violating the nightly curfew or accused of acting as target spotters for Ukrainian artillery attacks. Regional police investigators showed where Russian forces held and interrogated prisoners in a basement in Kozacha Lopan, in northern Kharkiv, Ukraine, on Thursday. Credit: Ivor Prickett for The New York Times In one instance, Mr. Bolvinov said, a pensioner from Izium traveled out of the city but then returned for personal reasons. After a Ukrainian artillery strike on Izium on Aug. 29 the pensioner was detained at his home and taken to the local police station, which Russian troops were using as a military headquarters, Mr. Bolvinov said. The building is one of the locations being investigated as a torture chamber. “People speaking with a Russian accent demanded to know who he was passing the coordinates to,” Mr. Bolvinov said, reading from the witness record. They hit the pensioner with a tube, breaking his arm, and pushed metal spokes from a bicycle wheel under his skin in the area of ​​his shoulder blades. After two hours of torture, the man lost consciousness from the pain, Mr. Bolvinov said. The police were also investigating a case in the village of Pisky-Radkivski, east of Izium, where a group of about 10 Russian soldiers, including a commander, set up a headquarters in a private house, Mr. Bolvinov said. They seized the home and two cars from a resident, he said. “We have witnesses who heard screams from the basement, pleas for help,” Mr. Bolvinov said. “Sometimes, after the screams, the locals heard bursts of shots, after which the screams stopped.” In the basement of the house, the police found ropes, Ukrainian army jackets, a gas mask, a dildo and a plastic container with dentures and gold teeth. Investigators also found records of testimony by Ukrainian prisoners. Mr. Bolvinov said the authorities were investigating whether the teeth were evidence of torture or had been taken from a dentist’s practice. The teeth have been sent for DNA analysis, he said. Mobile phones confiscated from local residents by Russian forces nailed to a tree in Kozacha Lopan, to deter others from trying to conceal phones during the occupation. Credit: Ivor Prickett for The New York Times © 2022 The New York Times Company

(Gailan Haji/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock) BAGHDAD — Iran carried out deadly cross-border attacks Wednesday in headquarters of three Iranian Kurdish opposition parties who support the ongoing demonstrations inside Iran The Kurdish Democratic Party of Iran confirmed the deaths of two of its members, while the leader of for the protests in Iran, there is no indication they are directly connected to the unrest. “But in reality it’s public dissent by the Iranians, inside Iran, against the Iranian regime.”

REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain By Antoni Slodkowski COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh More than 1,000 officials dealing with refugees fleeing the violence, suggesting the death toll has been a far greater than presidential spokesman, Zaw Htay, said the latest reports from military commanders were that fewer than is much greater than our figure. Challenging the generals, however, could put Myanmar's democratic transition at risk.

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