Women’s News

Amnesty International issued a statement urging the Iranian regime to stop harassing, arresting and imprisoning women’s rights defenders peacefully protesting against Iran’s degrading and discriminatory forced veiling laws. Following…
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The mullahs’ parliament voted down a proposal to allocate a one-sixth quota of parliamentary seats to women by a vote of 110 to 79 on Tuesday, April 16, 2019. Kavakebian, a member of the mullahs’ parliament, said, “Frankly, we men are…
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Child abuse has risen by 10 percent in North Khorasan Province in the course of one year targeting mostly girls. In an interview with the state-run ISNA news agency, Ali Akbar Sahranavard, the social deputy of the General Welfare…
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Teachers activist Fatemeh Bahmani and her husband, Mohammad Kurd, are each sentenced to one-year imprisonment and payment of a fine of 2 million Tomans. Fatemeh is a mother and her child is being kept by relatives since she has been…
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Defrauded customers of Samen Gold in Tehran were battered by the regime’s State Security Forces (SSF) while gathering to protest in front of Tehran’s prosecutor’s office on Sunday, April 14, 2019. The defrauded customers of Samen Gold…
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Mother of rape victim Zahra Navidpour says her family have been threatened by the regime’s agents to undertake her daughter’s murder, by posting a video clip on the internet. Zahra Navidpour was found dead at her mother's home on Sunday,…
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Emergency officials in Iran said a minibus carrying elementary girl students crashed on Thursday, leaving 20 injured. Alipourian, an emergency official in the city of Fasa, south-central Iran, announced that 20 elementary schoolgirls…
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On Thursday, April 11, 2019, Mrs. Monireh Arab-Shahi, mother of the civil activist and theater actress, Yasamin Ariani was arrested. She was transferred to the notorious Qarchak Prison on the next day. When referring to Vozara detention…
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Former political prisoner, Fatemeh (Hoorieh) Ziaee Azad, 56, was transferred to Women’s Ward of Evin Prison on Tuesday, April 9, 2019 to serve one and a half years. Fatemeh, who formerly served five years (1981-1986), was charged with…
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Civil activist Yasamin Ariani, freed in mid-winter of 2019, was rearrested at her home. On Wednesday, April 10, 2019, in a short call to her family she informed them that she had been detained on a complaint filed by the Guidance…
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