About 20 Iranian schoolgirls were hospitalised following the latest series of alleged poisoning attacks in Tabriz, over 600 km northwest of Tehran. The incident occurred in Tabriz’s Baghmisheh town just a day after the Iranian schools resumed classes after the Persian New Year break.

Iranian schoolgirls hit by another poisoning attack shortly after resumption of classes

A number of prominent Iranian women activists and journalists were released from Tehran's Evin prison on Thursday. Soon, a video showing the just-released women prisoners chanting defiant slogans began making rounds on social media.

WATCH | Iranian women, released out of jail, chant anti-regime slogans outside prison complex

Trigger warning: Some readers might find the graphic descriptions in this story disturbing. Discretion is adviced. Women in Iran's anti-regime protests are being targeted by the country's security forces with shotgun fire to their faces, breasts and genitalia, reports citing interviews with medical professionals from all over Iran said.

Iranian forces targeting protesting women's faces and genitalia, say medics

An Iranian Instagram star Sahar Tabar has been arrested and sentenced to 10 years in prison for posting distorted images online. Tabar, whose real name is Fatemeh Khishvand, is a 19-year-old Iranian woman who was popular on the social media platform Instagram and at one point had nearly 486,000 followers.

Iranian woman arrested for posting 'Zombie-like' images; charged for blasphemy

For nearly 40 years, the Islamic republic has barred female spectators from entering football and other sports stadiums, with clerics arguing women must be shielded from the masculine atmosphere and sight of semi-clad men.

First time in nearly 40 years, women in Iran attend football match

In a horrifying incident, a woman in Iran lost her life simply because she wanted to go to the stadium and root for her favourite football team. 29-year-old Sahar Khodayari took her life when she learnt that she could face imprisonment for entering a football stadium.

Iran: Woman loses life for wanting to watch football match

Iranian women could now face a jail term up to a decade for posting their pictures online without their headscarves or hijab. According to media reports, scores of Iranian women have joined an online movement wherein they post their videos and photos sans headscarves on social media and send them a US-based activist who found a campaign to oppose the hijab.

Iranian women could face 10-year prison term for posting pictures, videos online sans headscarves

The simple act of walking has become a display of defiance for some young Iranian women who move in Tehran's streets without a compulsory headscarf, or hijab. With every step, they risk harassment or even arrest by Iran's morality police, whose job it is to enforce the strict dress code imposed after the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

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