The Gazelle
Feb 9, 2026
Azadeh
Mahsa Amini has been awarded the European Union’s Sakharov Prize, while the Nobel Peace Prize and Sydney Peace Prize have gone to Narges Mohammadi and Nazanin Boniadi respectively.
According to eyewitnesses, 16-year-old Armita Garawand was violently pushed by a metro hijab enforcer for not wearing the hijab, falling into a coma.
The Iranian government has arrested family members of killed protestors and passed harsher hijab laws anticipating the one year anniversary of Mahsa (Jina) Amini’s death.
It has been six months since the start of mass poisonings of students, and the Iranian government has only made a handful of dubious arrests, the most recent, including multiple minors in the city of Lar.
After almost seven years of no diplomatic relations, Saudi Arabia and Iran foreign ministers met on April 6 to work on how to restore diplomatic relations in a Chinese-brokered agreement.
Over 900 schoolchildren, mostly girls, have been poisoned by unknown substances on school grounds in Iran.
The 65th annual Grammy Awards start off with an award to Iranian protest anthem. First ever Grammy award for Best Song for Social Change goes to dissident Iranian singer.
Protests after Mahsa Amini’s death continue in Iran. Both protesters and supporters have met with violent repression, here’s a runout of the evolution of the movement “Women, Life, Freedom”.
Protests and strikes persist in Iran despite severe backlash from the government.