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  Last month, a young woman went to work at Sarzamineh Shadi, or Land of Happiness, an indoor amusement park east of Iran’s capital, Tehran. After a   photo   of her without a hijab circulated on social media, the amusement park was closed, according to multiple accounts in Iranian media. Prosecutors in Tehran have reportedly opened an investigation. Shuttering a business to force compliance with Iran’s strict laws for women’s dress is a familiar tactic to Shaparak Shajarizadeh. She stopped wearing a hijab in 2017 because she views it as a symbol of government suppression, and recalls restaurant owners, fearful of authorities, pressuring her to cover her head. But Shajarizadeh, who fled to Canada in 2018 after three arrests for flouting hijab law, worries that women like the amusement park worker may now be targeted with face recognition algorithms as well as by conventional police work. After Iranian lawmakers suggested last year that face recognition should be...

  Iranian athlete Elnaz Rekabi returned home safely on Tuesday amid claims that she went 'missing' after competing without wearing a hijab (headscarf) during the finals of the Asian Climbing Competitions in Seoul, the capital of South Korea. People thought that Rekabi defied the country's diktat for female athletes and ditched the mandatory hijab to extend her support to women protesters amid protests in Iran. However, she said that her veil had fallen by mistake while she was competing in an international event in  Seoul. Her footage of competing without wearing a hijab came amid protests in the country after the death of a 22-year-old Iranian Kurdish woman in police custody following her arrest by the morality police over her improper Hijab. Amini was arrested by Iranian morality police in Tehran, the capital of Iran, on September 13 for allegedly not complying with the country’s strict dress codes that require women to cover their heads. The police reportedly took Amin...