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When British Bengali musician Tara Lily stopped along the shores in Goa, India, the sound of the ocean reconnected Lily to her father and Indian ancestors. A similar feeling happened when she traveled ...

Adhikari called her response "simply treasonous" and an "embarrassment for every Bengali and Indian ... Banerjee's visit to the UK was marred by controversy, as she faced protests from a group ...

Ozturk describes the detention facility as inhumane, citing unsanitary conditions, inadequate medical care, and mistreatment, including a nurse forcibly removing her hijab. While the department of ...

Surgeons from a specialist UK eye hospital have helped save the sight of more than 20 Bangladeshi students who were wounded in last summer’s protests in the country. Mahi Muqit and Niaz Islam, ...

Article continues below By coincidence, they match Amna Abdullatif’s hijab almost perfectly. She’s one of three local councillors for this ward and has been in her post since 2019. She’s ...

A hijab-wearing student who was dramatically detained by ICE last month detailed the nightmarish conditions inside the infamous Louisiana immigration detention center she is being held at.

Tehran, Iran – In a first, Iranian authorities have dispersed a demonstration calling for stricter implementation of the country’s dress code rules. On Friday evening, after state-organised ...

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An Iranian activist has been sentenced to 178 lashes and 18 months in prison after being arrested for not wearing a hijab. Hamideh Zarei, a Gilak activist and former political prisoner ...

The protesters were calling for the implementation of a bill imposing tougher penalties on women who refuse to wear the covering, known as a hijab. Parliament approved the bill in September 2023.

But Sara, 24, comes from a traditional Muslim family and has been wearing a hijab since primary school ... of intimate image-based abuse over the age of 18 who live in the UK. You can call them on ...