Women’s News

Four young women, 18 and under, committed suicide in the cities of Piranshahr, Khoy, and Saqqez, all in northwestern Iran. One of the four young women was Elham Mehri Delavan, 16, who shot herself in Delavan village near Piranshahr, due…
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Ten young women and 25 young men were arrested over two nights in Sari, capital of Mazandaran Province in northern Iran. The state-run Fars news agency reported that they had arrested the ten young women in three private parties in…
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Labor activist Atefeh Rangriz who is presently imprisoned in Qarchak Prison in Varamin was sentenced to 11 years and six months in jail and 74 lashes. Atefeh Rangriz was tried on August 5, 2019, at Branch 28 of Tehran’s Revolutionary…
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The Paris-based international organization, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has declared Iran as the world’s largest prison for female journalists. The latest RSF report published on August 26, 2019, states, “The Islamic Republic is now…
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A new plan is going to be enforced across Iran beginning this week to further step up suppression of women for improper veiling. The acting commander of Police, Ayyoub Soleimani, said the new plan, called Nazer (Observer) 2, is going to be…
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The suicides of a young woman and a mother of four in matter of a week have focused attentions on the misogynist marriage laws in Iran. A 16-year-old young woman by the name of Ziba set herself on fire to evade her family’s insistence…
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Tehran’s Court sentenced civil activist Saba Kord Afshari to 24 years in prison. She is presently detained in Evin Prison. Saba Kord Afshari was repeatedly pressured to make video confessions, something that she strongly resisted and…
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On Sunday morning, August 25, 2019, a woman was executed in Mashhad Central Prison. This is the 94th woman executed during six years of Hassan Rouhani’s presidency. The Iranian regime has executed at least four women in July, alone.…
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On Saturday night, August 24, 2019, Zahra Jamali, a civil activist living in Tehran, was arrested at her sister's home by security forces and taken to an unknown location. Security forces also seized the personal belongings of Ms. Zahra…
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Supporters of the Iranian Resistance in Norway held a stormy protest against the visit to Oslo by the Iranian regime’s Foreign Minsiter, Javad Zarif. Iranian women played a key role in these protests. Thursday, August 22, 2019,…
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