Women's Rights & Movements in Iran

‘Mother, they’re going to kill me’: Calls for international tribunal into Iran’s ‘illegal’ hanging

Daily Mail: A 23-year-old woman made a frantic phonecall to her mother begging for help before Iran authorities held a rushed execution - disregarding...

Iran hangs young woman for teenage crime she denied

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, May 1 - A young Iranian woman, who was accused of a committing a crime when she was 17 and...

Rights group urges Iran not to stone women

Iran Focus: London, Mar. 09 - Amnesty International on Monday urged Iran to suspend stoning sentences pending for eight women. Iran FocusLondon, Mar....

Relieving the Iran woman pressure

RFE/RL: An adviser to Iran's President Mahmud Ahmadinejad has said that female engineers can serve society from home. Radio Free Europe /...

Starting at home, Iran’s women fight for rights

New York Times: In a year of marriage, Razieh Qassemi, 19, says she was beaten repeatedly by her husband and his father. Her husband, she...

Lawyer: Iran detains women’s rights activist

AP: A lawyer for an Iranian activist says police detained the woman while she was campaigning for equal marriage rights for women. The...

Iran confirms stoning sentence against adulteress: report

AFP: Iran's supreme court has confirmed a sentence of death by stoning against a woman convicted of adultery in the southern city of Shiraz,...

Iran urged to halt “crackdown” on women activists

Reuters: U.N. human rights investigators called on Iran on Thursday to end what they called a "crackdown" on women's rights activists who have been...

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The Secret of the Kolang Mountain Nuclear Shelter

The Iranian regime's nuclear secrecy deep inside Kolang Mountain demonstrates its prioritization of destructive nuclear projects and its insistence...

Ghezel Hesar Prisoners Enter Ninth Day of Dry Hunger Strike

The mass hunger strike by death row prisoners in Unit 2 of Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj entered its...

Iran’s Economy on the Brink of Hyperinflation

Masoud Nili, a regime-affiliated economist and faculty member at the Department of Management and Economics of Sharif University of...

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Iran’s Regime Executes PMOI Member for Participating in January Uprising

The Iranian regime hanged Mehdi Khanaki, a 25-year-old law...

Iran’s ‘No to Executions Tuesdays’ Campaign Marks130th Week

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