Thirty-five Years of Forced Hijab; The Widespread and Systematic Violation of Women’s Right in Iran

Iran is the first country where all women are forced by law to observe hijab laws. Without espousing a clear definition of hijab, Islamic Republic laws consider women who lack “Islamic veil” in “public” as committing a crime punishable by imprisonment and fines. In this article, forced Hijab is examined as a kind of systematic violation of women's rights in Iran.