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AP News explores how bustling evening entertainment venues operate in northern Nigeria despite ongoing tensions with conservative morality enforcement and regional insecurity.
Ahoo Daryaei, an Iranian student, became a symbol of protest in November 2024 after removing her clothes in defiance of the morality police, and is reportedly still facing severe repercussions for her act.
The Taliban government's morality police detained approximately 20 aid workers near the Iran-Afghanistan border, citing their beards not being long enough as the reason.
UN experts have condemned the Afghan morality police in Herat for arresting dozens of women who were not wearing the required body-cloaking chador or burqa.
Austrian teachers are expressing strong opposition to enforcing an upcoming headscarf ban in schools, with many stating they do not want to act as "morality police" despite threats of disciplinary action for non-compliance.
Following questions regarding the State Security Department's (VSD) background check of Oleksandr Lanekcio, who became a board member of Lithuanian Airports, a former VSD head commented that the service is not a 'morality police,' emphasizing that only a portion of legal criteria are evaluated.
Businesses in Herat, Afghanistan, are experiencing a downturn as female customers opt to stay home following a recent crackdown by morality police on women's attire, according to local shopkeepers and residents.
Heavily armed security forces deployed across Herat, Afghanistan, prompting residents to cancel planned protests following a crackdown by morality police against women.
UN experts and Doctors Without Borders (MSF) have issued condemnations against the Taliban's ongoing crackdown on women by the Afghan morality police.
My sexuality had to be hidden from my friends, my parents, not to mention the authorities. Then I found freedom at house parties and one song that sums up me finally being able to be myself I was raised in Tehran, under the Ayatollah’s sharia law and daily watch of Basij – the “morality police”. My parents fell in love with the Islamic Revolution when I was a baby and welcomed life under its strict religious rules. The Ayatollah’s face stared down from the walls at home, a daily reminder of w...
Iran has established a new court in Tehran focused on 'moral security' to intensify monitoring of hijab compliance, amidst a renewed presence of morality police and increased harassment of women.
The morality police, previously a visible presence on Tehran's Valijasr Street, appears to have disappeared, marking a radical change in the city's cultural and commercial center.
The UN reports that morality police in Afghanistan have arrested 30 women for violating dress codes.
Kofi Bentil and other experts have voiced strong opposition to Ghana's proposed age verification system for accessing pornography, arguing it is not the government's role to control consumption and that technical challenges like VPNs would render it ineffective.