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29 Oct 2014, 3:28 am by John Kang
But most worrying are new attempts to control women. [read post]
13 Dec 2006, 7:10 pm
Iran will launch a women-only taxi company in Tehran aimed at women who feel uncomfortable riding in close proximity with members of the opposite sex, a newspaper reported Saturday. [read post]
The number of women publicly resisting Iran’s dress code has spiked following protests arising from the death of 22-year-old Mahasa Amini in the course of police custody. [read post]
3 Dec 2009, 11:00 pm
ProductionME reported yesterday that Ezatollah Zarghami, head of Iran's state television, has ordered that women appearing on television will not be permitted to wear make-up. [read post]
9 Oct 2023, 4:55 am by JURIST Staff
The post Iran dispatch: Nobel Peace Prize award to an imprisoned Iranian women’s rights activist will rally support for her fight appeared first on JURIST - News. [read post]
15 Oct 2022, 1:00 pm by Vijeta Uniyal
"  The post Iran’s Security Forces Caught on Video Sexually Assaulting Women Protesters first appeared on Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion. [read post]
7 Jun 2011, 4:05 am by Howard Friedman
Yesterday, Iran's women's soccer team was disqualified from competing in an Olympics qualifying match because of the head coverings which the women were wearing. [read post]
12 Sep 2022, 3:05 am
Source: Deutsche Welle (9 September 2022)https://www.dw.com/en/iran-rights-groups-slam-death-sentences-for-lgbtq-activists/a-63069473 Iran said this week that a court had sentenced to death two female gay rights activists for "spreading corruption on earth" — a charge frequently imposed on people deemed to have broken the country's Shariah laws.The country's official IRNA news agency reported that the two women, Zahra Sedighi Hamedani, 31,… [read post]
The organization requests that Iran repeal the statutory provisions that impose compulsory veiling on women and girls, perpetuate sexual violence, and violate women’s dignity and abolish the morality police that enforce the discriminatory laws. [read post]
13 Nov 2022, 11:00 am by Vijeta Uniyal
"At least 326 protestors, including 43 children and 25 women, have been killed in Iran. [read post]
17 Jan 2008, 10:52 am
Women continue to bear the brunt of Iran's draconian penal system and are subject to more punishments by stoning. [read post]
8 Mar 2007, 1:51 am
BBC Radio has excellent coverage of an International Women's Day protest in Iran, and it's suppression, here. [read post]
23 Sep 2022, 5:13 pm
 Protests have erupted across Iran and the world, with people chanting "Women..Life...Freedom" Bruce Springsteen sang "you can't start a fire without a spark" and Iran has been dancing in the dark since religious extremists came to power in February 1979. [read post]
23 Jul 2013, 1:45 pm by Stephen Gottlieb
Iranians told me Arabs enslave people, particularly women. [read post]
2 Dec 2022, 2:00 pm by Mary Chastain
"Literally under attack in places like Iran or Afghanistan or Ukraine where rape is a tactic of war, or under attacks by political and cultural forces in a country like our own when it comes to women's health care and bodily autonomy. [read post]
25 Oct 2019, 6:18 am by Angela Mauroni
” Despite certain moves by Iran to provide allowances for certain actions of women, such as attending sporting events, the report states that discrimination is still highly prevalent. [read post]
28 Jun 2022, 10:50 am
The known number of women executed also rose from nine to 14. [read post]
15 May 2009, 9:00 am
According to Article 946 of the Civil Code of Iran, which is based on Islamic... [read post]
6 Mar 2023, 5:04 am by Will Newman
  People generally dress up, and women wear dark suits. [read post]