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An Iranian court sentenced singer Parastoo Ahmadi and eight collaborators to 74 lashes for performing without hijab, plus a two-year ban on leaving the country and performing, signaling a hardening of religious enforcement under Iran’s postwar leadership.
Marjane Satrapi, the French-Iranian author and illustrator of Persepolis, has died at 56. Her autobiographical works chronicled Tehran’s 1979 revolution and exile, turning a personal story into a universal meditation on freedom and women’s rights, and she helped popularize Iranian perspectives through comics and film after gaining French citizenship; tributes from leaders and peers followed as details of her death—described by her family as due to sadness after the loss of her husband—emerged.
The Taliban published a 31-article decree, approved by Supreme Leader Hibatullah Akhundzada and issued in the regime’s gazette, that formalizes child marriages in Afghanistan. It sets rules around “virgin girls,” grants fathers and grandfathers power to arrange or dissolve marriages under strict conditions, and allows marriages for girls younger than 18 with Taliban court oversight. Critics describe the move as gender apartheid and a grave threat to girls’ safety, with poverty-driven arrangements already occurring and Western observers warning it contradicts basic rights and protections for women and children.