Women's Rights & Movements in Iran

Iran sentences 17-year-old girl to death

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jan. 06 – The Persian-language website Hambastegi Meli reported on Friday that in Karaj, west of the Iranian capital, a...

Iran’s Islamists terrorise young women with acid

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jan. 04 – In the latest “acid attack” by radical Islamists on young women accused of ignoring the country’s strict...

Iran to hang teenage woman for crime she denies

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 27 – Iran’s State Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence for a teenage woman accused of murdering another...

Girls constitute 11 percent of runaway children in Iran capital

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 26 – More than ten percent of street-children in the Iranian capital, Tehran, are girls, according to a report...

Women set tyres on fire in Iran demo

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 20 – Dozens of women sealed off a highway in southern Iran on Tuesday by setting fire to car...

Iran’s “anti-vice police” make arrests in party raid

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 20 – Iranian State Security Forces raided a residence in the northern city of Noshahr over the weekend, arresting...

Selection of Iran’s leader to remain a men-only domain

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Dec. 19 – A powerful cleric rejected the notion of women taking up posts in the assembly of theologians who...

Iraqi women condemn Iran’s meddling in elections

Iran Focus: Baghdad, Dec. 12 – Prominent women’s rights personalities from Iraq’s Diyala Province condemned on Monday “massive meddling by Iran” in their country’s...

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European Union Sanctions Against Iran’s Regime and the Strait of Hormuz Crisis

In the latest development in the tense relations between Tehran and Brussels, the issue of European Union sanctions has...

Political Prisoner Parisa Kamali Commemorates Martyrs of January Uprising In Defiant Message

Parisa Kamali, a political prisoner held in Yazd Prison, who has been sentenced to eight and a half years...

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Political prisoner Soheil Arabi from Ghezel Hesar Prison: This Place Smells of Death and Execution

Soheil Arabi, a former political prisoner who was recently...

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