Women’s News

A woman by the name of Fatemeh Nassiri and a man were executed Wednesday morning, June 19, 2019, at Gohardasht Prison (Rajai-Shahr) in Karaj. Fatemeh Nassiri had been transferred from Ward 7 of Qarchak Prison to Gohardasht Prison to…
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A large group of retirees and former government employees held a gathering to demand their past due payments. Women actively participated in this protest. The retirees protest was held on Tuesday, June 18, 2019, across from the mullahs’…
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Three women’s rights activists, Maryam Mohammadi, Esrin Derkaleh and Nargess Khorrami have been summoned to the Evin Prison’s Prosecutor’s Office. Intelligence agents broke into the residence of Maryam Mohammadi on Sunday, June 16, 2019.…
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Iranian women turned the funeral procession of political prisoner Alireza Shir-Mohammad-Ali into an occasion to seek justice for innocent victims of persecutions in Iran. On Friday, June 14, 2019, the funeral procession and burial of…
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According to the reports of the past month, forcible marriage has been among the reasons for suicide among young women in Iran who in the absence of any legal support, find their only way out of problems in ending their own lives. Following…
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World record holder female swimmer, Elham Sadat Asghari, does not receive any form of government support in Iran. According to this Iranian female swimmer whose world records have been registered by Guinness World Records, she does not…
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Twenty days after her arrest, Kurdish civil activist Zahra Mohammadi remains in undetermined conditions. Zahra Mohammadi, director of Nojin Social and Cultural Association, was arrested on May 23, 2019, when agents of the Intelligence…
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Girl students of Zeinabiyeh High School in Kamyaran went on strike in protest to the school’s demand that they pay the price of their exam sheets. On Sunday, June 9, 2019, before the exam starts, Zeinabiyeh High School’s deputy principal…
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The State Security Force has further ramped up pressure on Iranian women by tightening up the regime’s rules on compulsory veiling. The acting commander of the State Security Force, Ayyoub Solaimani, once again declared that women commit…
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Three female labor activists continue to remain in jail after 40 days since getting arrested during an International Workers Day protest demonstration on May 1, 2019, across from the mullahs’ parliament in Tehran. The three female labor…
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