At Tehran's Amirkabir University, authorities installed facial recognition software at its entrance gate to also find women not wearing the hijab, it said. Surveillance cameras on Iran's major ...

For decades, Iranian authorities have enforced the mandatory hijab through patrols by police and security forces. The country’s so-called “morality police”, known as “Gasht-e Ershad” or ...

Rights groups have been outraged over the hijab law and the cruel ways it is enforced. In December, Amnesty International said that Iranian authorities had imposed new draconian laws against veil ...