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Iran: Student activist summoned to serve prison term
Security agents called student activist Golrokh Airayii on Tuesday, October 4, 2016, and summoned her to turn herself in on Wednesday, October 5, 2016, to […]
Women
Iran & World
New document reveals execution of 13-year-old girls
A letter by Ayatollah Hossein-Ali Montazeri published on September 27, 2016, reveals horrific crimes committed by the clerical regime’s judiciary against unarmed 13-year-old girls in […]
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Female chess players to boycott Iran championship over hijab rule
Some of the world’s best female chess players are refusing to attend next year’s championship in Iran over the country’s dress code. They have denounced […]
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Inside Qarchak Prison: ‘Iran’s most dangerous for women’
News Source: Saleh Humeid, AlArabiya.net The Qarchak women’s prison located in a desert, east of Tehran, is known as the most dangerous and worst prison […]
Iran & World
Canadian professor Homa Hoodar released after spending 114 days in notorious Iranian jail
The Canadian Press Canadian-Iranian professor Homa Hoodfar has been freed from prison and flown out of the country. IRNA filed a brief article Monday, saying […]
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Iran: Khamenei issues fatwa banning women from riding bicycles
Ali Khamenei, the mullahs’ supreme leader, issued a ridiculous fatwa banning women’s bicycling in public and in front of strangers. He said: “Riding bicycle often […]
Human Rights
Mom of jailed Iranian Christian pleads for son’s release
The mother of an Iranian Christian jailed for his faith has pleaded for his son to be released from Rajai-Shahr (Gohardasht) priCiting her visual disability, […]
Books
Iranian Women’s struggle for Freedom and Gender Equality
Brief history of Iranian women’s movement, regulations and facts of repression against women and activities of women for freedom Iranian Women’s struggle for Freedom and […]
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Women were prominent in Iranian opposition’s annual freedom rally
Over 100,000 Iranians and supporters of the Iranian opposition gathered on July 9, 2016, in Le Bourget, Paris, to mark the anniversary of the beginning […]
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Iran: Another Bahaii woman arrested, her business shut down
A Bahaii woman was arrested after one month of harassment, intimidation and shutdown of her business. Ms. Sara Akhlaghi is a Bahaii residing in Shiraz. […]