Women's Rights & Movements in Iran

Iran steps up crackdown against ‘immoral’ activity

AFP: Iran is pressing on with one of its toughest moral crackdowns in years, warning tens of thousands of women over slack dress, targeting...

Film of woman, 2 men being hanged in public in Iran

Iran Focus: London, Jul. 24 – The following is shocking footage of a public hanging of a woman and two men in Iran, as...

Iran launches new crackdown on unIslamic dress

AFP: Iran on Monday launched a new wave of a moral crackdown against women who "dress like models" and men whose hairstyles are deemed...

Iran to launch new dress code crackdown

AFP: Iran is to launch a new crackdown Monday on slack dressing that targets both men and women whose clothing and haircuts are deemed...

Iran police to make more Islamic dress checks

Reuters: Iranian police will intensify a crackdown on women flouting Islamic dress code, a police official told a newspaper on Sunday, in the first...

Iran hangs woman in public in volatile city

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 15 – Iranian authorities hanged a woman in public in the north-western province of East Azerbaijan, state media reported...

Don’t “play” with Islamic law, Iranian women told

Reuters: Activists should not try to change Islamic laws relating to women's rights, Iran's supreme leader said on Wednesday, two days after one campaigner...

Iran sentences women’s right activists to lashes, prison term

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 03 – Iran’s judiciary has sentenced a women’s right activist to lashes and prison time for taking part in...

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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...

Political Prisoner Yahgoub Derakhshan Sentenced to Death for a Second Time

Yahgoub Derakhshan, a political prisoner and supporter of the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) held in Lakan Prison...

Widespread Student Protests Across the Country; Opposition to Educational Policies

Student protests against the educational policies of the Iranian regime, particularly the issue of the mandatory impact of grade...

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Experts Warn About Declining Dairy Consumption and the Risk of Expanding Malnutrition in Iran

With dairy prices rising again and consumption declining in...

Iran’s Regime Executes Two More Protesters from the January Uprising

This morning, two more protesters were executed by Iran's...

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