Abbas Sheikh al-Islami, dean of Mashhad’s Azad University said, “In Iran, out of 180 cases of violence against women, 128 are closed as plaintiff withdraws their complaints. Women victimized by their husbands or families either refuse to file a complaint or withdraw their cases during the course of the process due to secondary reasons. Penal laws do not resolve the problems of Iranian women.”
(State-run IRNA news agency – December 6, 2014)