Women's Rights & Movements in Iran

Iran police confiscate mannequins in new crackdown

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Oct. 31 – Police in the north-eastern town of Bojnourd have launched a new crackdown on alluring mannequins in clothes...

Iran’s Supreme Court gives go-ahead for execution of woman

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Oct. 26 - Iran’s State Supreme Court upheld the death sentence against a 35-year-old woman, the Iran daily reported on...

Iran sentences woman to execution

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Oct. 18 – An Iranian woman was sentenced to execution in the Iranian capital on Monday, a state-run daily reported...

Female students clash with police in Iran capital

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Oct. 18 – Students from a female dormitory of Shahid Beheshti University in Tehran started a protest against lack of...

Iran sentences woman to death by stoning for adultery

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Oct. 15 – A court in Iran sentenced a woman to death by stoning for adultery and an Afghan man...

Get home by dusk, Iran tells female civil servants

Reuters: Female civil servants at Iran's Culture Ministry and female journalists at the state newspaper and news agency must be out of the office...

Majlis deputy urges greater crackdown on women

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Oct. 10 – A Majlis (Parliament) deputy from the central city of Isfahan told reporters that there was an urgent...

Senior Iran cleric: Prostitutes must be hanged

Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Oct. 10 – A senior Iranian cleric in the city of Qom called for death sentences to be handed down...

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Details of the Execution of six PMOI Members

Following the execution of six prisoners affiliated with the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) by Iranian regime security...

International Conference Condemns Rise in Iran Executions, Voices Support for NCRI

An international conference was held near Paris on April 10 to protest the recent rise in executions in Iran....

Amnesty International: Internet Access Is a Fundamental Human Right and Must Be Restored Immediately

As Iran continues to experience one of its longest internet disruptions, Amnesty International on Friday, April 10, pointed to...

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