Women's Rights & Movements in Iran

Women's Rights & Movements in Iran

Iran to launch police stations for women in capital: report

AFP: Iran plans to set up police stations run by women officers in the Islamic republic's capital to deal only with offences committed by...
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Women's Rights & Movements in Iran

Young woman doctor who fell foul of Iran’s ‘love police’ was strangled

The Observer: Nothing about Zahra Baniyaghoub's life suggested she would have wanted to end it. With a flourishing career as a doctor and a...
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Women's Rights & Movements in Iran

Tight trousers targeted in Iran clothing crackdown

Reuters: Iranian police will crack down on women in Tehran flouting Islamic dress codes with winter fashions deemed immodest, such as tight trousers tucked...
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Women's Rights & Movements in Iran

Iran arrests women’s activist: report

AFP: Iran has arrested a journalist and women's rights activist for writing articles on "discriminatory laws" for women in the Islamic republic, a press...
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Women's Rights & Movements in Iran

Iran police unveil ‘vice list’

AFP: Iranian police have unveiled a list of "vices" -- including makeup, un-Islamic dress and decadent movies -- being targeted in an ongoing moral...
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Women's Rights & Movements in Iran

Iran ‘must free’ woman activist

BBC: Seven human rights groups including Amnesty International have urged Iran to set aside a prison sentence for women's rights activist Delaram Ali. ...
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Women's Rights & Movements in Iran

Iran targets couples in continued moral crackdown

AFP: Iran's police are to keep up their moral crackdown through the winter months, confronting couples whose behaviour in public is deemed to be...
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Women's Rights & Movements in Iran

Iran MPs want to shut down Benetton stores

AFP: A group of prominent MPs have called for the Italian clothing retailer Benetton to quit Iran, saying its fashions are a bad influence...
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Iran’s Regime Upholds Death Sentences of Five Political Prisoners in Ahvaz

Karoon Human Rights Organization reported that the death sentences of five political prisoners held in Sheiban Prison in Ahvaz...
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Yahgoub Derakhshan, a political prisoner and supporter of the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) held in Lakan Prison...
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