Morality police first appeared in Iran soon after the Islamic Revolution of 1979. But similar forces were present in parts of the Middle East even prior to the date.

The Islamic Republic of Iran announced the dismantling of its morality police in the aftermath of Mahsa Amini's death, a woman who died while in custody after being arrested for not wearing her ...

Multiple countries have special police that enforce Islamic moral codes. Here’s how Iran’s morality police compare to other forces with the same goals. Iran’s morality police have gained ...

Iran's supreme leader has pardoned "tens of thousands" of prisoners including some arrested in recent anti-government ...

STORY: Iran's Supreme Leader has pardoned "tens of thousands" of prisoners, including some arrested in recent anti-government ...

Iran’s chief prosecutor Mohamed Jafar Montazeri said on Saturday the morality police “had been closed,” the semi-official news agency ISNA reported. The agency did not provide details ...

She later added that the revolution underway in Iran now is no longer “only ... to explain first-hand her experiences with the morality police. She is one of hundreds of thousands of women ...

While no one could have predicted the flashpoint would be a routine morality police arrest, it did not come as a complete surprise to me. Throughout my years of reporting on Iran and the wider ...

A long-detained opposition leader in Iran is calling for a nationwide referendum about whether to write a new constitution for the Islamic Republic amid nationwide protests shaking the country. Mir ...

One of Iran's main opposition figures, Mir Hossein Mousavi, has called for the "fundamental transformation" of a political system he said ...

Protests have rocked Iran for months since the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in the custody of the country’s morality police in September. Amini was detained by the morality police over allegedly ...

Iran’s theocratic government has been engaged ... woman named Mahsa Amini who was detained by the country’s morality police for not wearing a hijab while visiting Tehran and died in police ...