Women ’arrested for riding bicycles’ in Iran and made to sign pledge never to cycle in public again. Female cyclists have previously been arrested for flouting the country’s modesty laws.
A group of women has reportedly been arrested for riding bicycles in Iran and made to sign pledges not to (...)
Statement by Women Living Under Muslim Laws (WLUML)
London (07. 07. 16) – In recent days, after the arrest of renowned anthropologist and Concordia University Professor Homa Hoodfar one, a number of Iranian media outlets said to be linked with the Revolutionary Guards have published reports, (...)
London / Montreal (25 June 2016) – More than two weeks have passed since Professor Homa Hoodfar’s arrest on 6 June 2016. Since that time, she has been held in Evin prison and denied any direct contact with her family. Her lawyer has also been prohibited from seeing her or accessing her case file. (...)
Homa Hoodfar, a Concordia University professor known for her research on women in Islamic societies, is being detained in Iran’s notorious Evin prison, the same facility where Montreal photojournalist Zahra Kazemi was detained. Kazemi died in 2003 after being raped and tortured by Iranian (...)
Women of Tehran Symphony Orchestra
The Tehran Symphony Orchestra cancelled a performance that had been planned for the closing ceremony of an international wrestling event on November 29, 2015, after the authorities objected to the presence of women musicians among the orchestra members.
The (...)
Women in Iran could face significant restrictions on their use of contraceptives and be further excluded from the labour market unless they have had a child if two proposed laws are approved, says a new report by Amnesty International published today. : Attacks on Women’s Sexual and Reproductive (...)
To mark International Women’s Day Justice for Iran (JFI) has published a major report on history and politics of enforced hijab under the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Thirty-five Years of Forced Hijab: The Widespread and Systematic Violation of Women’s Rights in Iran points out over the past ten (...)
The Guardian Council has now approved the bill passed by the Islamic regime of Iran’s Majlis or parliament for the ‘protection’ of children and young people , which includes a clause allowing men to marry their adopted daughters with the permission of a court. The bill had previously been denied (...)
Since she won the price in October and EU representatives asked Iranian authorities to let them meet her, the campaign against her has intensified.
The imprisoned Iranian lawyer and women’s rights activist Nasrin Sotoudeh has begun a hunger strike since October 17 in Evin prison. This in (...)
A cleric in Iran’s northern Semnan province claims he was beaten up by a woman after telling her to cover up. Hojatoleslam Ali Beheshti, a top religious figure in Shahrmirzad, told a passerby that she was “bad hijab” — a woman who is not fully in compliance with the country’s Islamic dress code. (...)
The Islamic regime began requiring Iranian women to wear the veil (hijab) in public soon after it seized power in Iran in 1979. Three decades later, Iranian police still carry out veil crackdowns every summer to keep a tight grip on the way people dress.
On 10 July, 2012 a Facebook campaign by (...)
The international solidarity network Women Living Under Muslim Laws is shocked to learn that the Iranian security forces have carried out a new wave of arrests against journalists and women’s rights activists. This is a worrying development, as it shows the pressure on political activities and (...)
On Saturday 29th of January there was a big demonstration arranged by independent women’s rights organizations in Tunisia.
Due to this occasion 155 Iranian women’s rights activists in a letter showed their solidarity with the Tunisian women and their struggles to preserve their achievements with (...)
Women Human Rights Defenders International Coalition Call for the Iranian authorities to release Nasrin Sotoudeh and other lawyers defending women’s rights detained arbitrarily
On the occasion of 29 November, International Day of Women Human Rights Defenders, the Women Human Rights Defenders (...)
If the new family law is passed by Majlis, all the minor but important reforms women were able to win through hectic struggles, will be rolled back.
The growing chasm between conflicting factions of ruling clique has induced a change in regime’s tactics to handle the deepening crisis. Serious (...)
Sakineh is among 30 women and a few men sentenced to execution by stoning on the charges of adultery.
The life and death of a poor woman in Iran has become a topic of international politics. Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani has become a symbol. Sentenced to execution by stoning, Sakineh is presently (...)
The protest movement is now a year old – but the feminists at its helm can look back on decades of courageous activism.
This weekend one year will have gone by since the Iranian people took to the streets in droves to protest at the fraudulent elections that returned Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to the (...)
NEW YORK — Without fanfare, the United Nations this week elected Iran to its Commission on the Status of Women, handing a four-year seat on the influential human rights body to a theocratic state in which stoning is enshrined in law and lashings are required for women judged “immodest.”
Just (...)
Over a month ago a group of Iranian women’s activists called for all defenders of women’s rights, women’s organizations and networks to take action in support of the women’s and civil rights movements in Iran, and to prepare measures of support and protest under the banner of “freedom and gender (...)
Amnesty International has urged the Iranian authorities to release a group of women who were beaten and arrested during a peaceful vigil in Tehran at the weekend.
The 33 women, members of a group known as the ’Mourning Mothers’, were seized during their weekly meeting in Laleh Park, Tehran on (...)
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