Iran police step up crackdown on unIslamic dress
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Iranian police stepped up a crackdown on Monday on women ignoring strict Islamic dress codes, including sending newly trained women officers to help "guide" violators, a police official said.
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Pakistani police step up operations at a mosque in Islamabad, on the fifth day of confrontation with Islamists.
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Authorities have cracked down on opposition groups recently during a time of increasingly active efforts to stop President Hosni Mubarak from extending his 24-year rule in a referendum later this year.
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Police chief warns Iranian women to watch out for cameras hidden in places where they undress.
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Iranians flouting Islamic street dress codes may risk being hauled in by police for questioning by "psychologists", but the frequent sight of bandaged faces from cosmetic surgery raises not so much as an official eyebrow.
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ANKARA, Feb 11 (IPS) - Thanks to an alliance between the ruling Justice  and Development (AK) and Nationalist Action (MH) parties, the  Turkish Grand National Assembly has approved legislation to lift  the ban on wearing the Muslim headscarf for female students at  universities.
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Iran's judicial authorities have launched investigations based on fresh evidence in the cases of two Iranian-Americans detained on spying charges, a judiciary spokesman said on Tuesday.
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Iran&#39;s intelligence minister says authorities have arrested more than 10 people this year on charges of spying on the country&#39;s nuclear program.
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Iranian police close more than 20 barbers' shops in Tehran for offering Western hairstyles for men.
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The arrest of Margaret Thatcher's son last week is the latest example of a crackdown on overthrows.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - Iraqi police have taken control of the Imam Ali Mosque in the holy city of Najaf after entering the shrine and arresting some hundreds of militiamen, Interior Ministry and an Iraqi government source say.
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Muslim leaders are launching a "rights and responsibilities" in response to fears over anti-terrorism policing.
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Police in Barcelona arrested a number of suspected Islamic militants Wednesday in a series of pre-dawn raids, a police spokesman said.
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Iran's judiciary has launched new investigations into the cases of two detained Iranian-Americans charged with endangering national security, citing fresh evidence, a spokesman said Tuesday.
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A draft law aimed at encouraging Islamic dress raised fears Saturday that Iran&#039;s hard-line government plans to re-impose veils and head-to-toe overcoats on women who have shirked the restrictions for years, letting hair show and wearing jeans and shapely outfits.
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MADRID, Oct 25  Spain announced a crackdown on prisoners accused of being Islamic militants today while a top police officer said a radical jailed since 2001 was the intellectual leader of the Madrid ...
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For the past few months, Iranians have been subjected to stronger enforcement of Islamic codes. Is this a revival of the dogmatic strictures of the country's revolutionary past?