Women's Rights & Movements in Iran

Women's Rights & Movements in Iran

62,000 ‘badly veiled’ women warned in Iran holy province

AFP: Iranian police have issued warnings to 62,000 women who were "badly veiled" in the Shiite holy province of Qom as part of a...
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Women's Rights & Movements in Iran

Police attack women at Isfahan airport

Iran Focus: Isfahan, Jun. 16 – Security agents in Isfahan Airport on Wednesday attacked and beat up a number of women. ...
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Women's Rights & Movements in Iran

Iran opens first women-only bank branch

AFP: Iran has opened a women-only branch of a bank in the religious northeastern city of Mashhad in a bid to promote Islamic culture,...
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Women's Rights & Movements in Iran

Iranian authorities step up arrests of women for ‘immodest’ dress

Washington Post: Iranian authorities have begun police patrols in the capital to arrest women wearing clothes deemed improper. The Washington Post...
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Iran’s new ‘hi-tech’ veil

Iran Focus: Tehran, Jun. 02 – As Iran steps up its annual pre-summer clampdown on women it considers to be 'immodestly' dressed, Iranian state...
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Women's Rights & Movements in Iran

Iran holy city ups fine for unveiled women

Reuters: Iran's second biggest city has massively increased the amount it fines for women who fail to observe the Islamic dress code and don't...
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Women's Rights & Movements in Iran

Tehran prayer leader urges crackdown on dress code

Iran Focus: Tehran, May 21 - Tehran’s Friday prayer leader, Guardian Council Secretary Ahmad Jannati, urged a crackdown on violations of the dress code...
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Women's Rights & Movements in Iran

“Anti-vice” patrols crack down in Isfahan

Iran Focus: Isfahan, Iran, May 19 - State Security Force in the central Iranian cities of Isfahan and Shahinshahr have launched a major crackdown...
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