Alex Ritson

She was arrested and jailed after posting her photo during the protests without her job.

And then she was sick for a long time and sort of we hadn't seen her publicly.

And the government had announced that she's banned from working.

Taraneh is the equivalent of a Meryl Streep in Iran.

She's Iran's most acclaimed actress with leading roles in all the major movies that have come out of Iran over the past 20 years.

Again, it's incredibly courageous and it's a very heavy personal cost that she has sort of announced that she's going to take the stand at the cost of her career.

Anecdotally, I've been told that the number of women not wearing the hijab, not wearing traditional dress in Iran is growing and that there seems to be, even in a city like Tehran, less intervention by the morality police against women for doing that.

That's correct.

That's what our reporting and the interviews that I do and all the videos and imagery that's coming out of Iran is.

on social media and everywhere shows and also the government's own sort of dilemma where they, you know, say publicly that we don't know what to do about the growing trend of women not observing the hijab.

You know, the Masa Amini protests really changed Iran.

And I think Tyrone is a symbol of that, of that sort of civil disobedience and the discourse that we see, the defiance we see still by women and young people in Iran.

Barnas Fasihi from the New York Times speaking to Sean Lay.

People in Myanmar's largest city, Yangon, have spent their first night without a curfew in nearly five years.

The military government has hailed what it claims is the city's return to normality.

The lifting of the curfew comes just a day ahead of elections.

Anna Aslam reports.

When the Burmese army staged a coup back in 2021, there were massive pro-democracy protests across the country.

As security forces clamped down on the protesters, the junta enforced a strict nighttime curfew in Yangon, home to about 7 million people.

Now, with elections scheduled to begin in phases on Sunday, the junta has lifted the curfew completely,