Iran: Kurdish women beaten up and arrested on New Year’s Eve
A number of Kurdish civil activists held a New Year ceremony in Qasrian village of Sanandaj on March 19. After the ceremony, security forces arrested a number of ...
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Iran – women: Flogging and jail sentence for Simin Aivaz-zadeh
Simin Aivaz-zadeh, mother of political prisoner Omid Alishenas, was sentenced to 91 days imprisonment and 74 lashes. The deadline for objection to the sentence and demanding revision was ...
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Annual Book: Iranian Women in 2015
Annual Book: Iranian Women in 2015 Download English Version Introduction The events of 2015 brought no more stability to the clerical regime in Iran despite the nuclear deal, ...
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Why the Iranian regime does not join the CEDAW?
Download English Version Also Visit Introduction This pamphlet prepared by the Women's Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, intends to shed light on the Iranian ...
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Iran-women: Turks sentenced to jail and flogging for protesting insults
A court in north-western Iranian city of Tabriz sentenced the protesters against a TV program insulting the Turks, to prison and flogging. Turkish activists staged a rally last ...
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Iran: Nurse imprisoned for expression of her thoughts
Ms. Nargess Farhadi was summoned to Evin Prison on January 21, 2016, to serve her one-year prison sentence. Ms. Farhadi had been arrested on October 8, 2014, along ...
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Iran: Poet Fatemeh Ekhtessari and her husband might run away
Media outlets close to the Revolutionary Guards have claimed two Iranian poets Ms. Fatemeh Ekhtesari and her husband, Mr. Mehdi Moussavi, who had been sentenced to long-term prison ...
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NCRI Women’s Committee Monthly Report – Dec 2015
NCRI Women's Committee Monthly Report - Dec 2015 Download PDF Introduction: During the last month of 2015, Rouhani’s government intensified public executions and carried out ruthless punishments such ...
Read moreDetailsIran: Rouhani government issues stoning for woman
News agencies in Iran reported on 9 December, “The murder suspects of a young man have been sentenced to death, stoning and prison. The ruling, issued with the ...
Read moreDetailsIran: Woman executed in central prison of Qazvin
Ms. F. Zanjanian was hanged in Qazvin’s Central Prison at dawn on Sunday, December 6, 2015, after enduring 99 lashes of the whip. (State-run Mehr news agency, December ...
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