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Iranian women's rights activists
Activists meet with judiciary officials about Sotoudeh
Scores of Iranian women’s rights activists have once again descended on the offices of the justice department, calling on the judiciary to respond to the demands of jailed lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, who has been on a hunger strike since October 17. » read more
Women’s right activists demonstrate for Sotoudeh
Scores of Iranian women’s rights activists gathered in front of the Tehran Prosecutor’s Office on Sunday December 2 to call for proper handling of the case of Nasrin Sotoudeh, the jailed lawyer who has been on a hunger strike for close to 50 days. » read more
“Anti-woman” tradition kept from official list
Iranian women’s rights activists have scored a victory by keeping a local tradition from being enshrined in Iran’s National Heritage registry list — a tradition that involves ending blood feuds between families by forcing a woman from one family to marry into the other. » read more
Activist on trial in Tabriz
Iranian women’s rights activist Faranak Farid went on trial today in Tabriz as several women writers, poets, lawyers and other activists attended. » read more
Will Women Participate in Iran’s Parliamentary Elections?
In examining the eight Islamic Republic parliaments, from the very first Parliament, which included only four women, despite the historic role that women played in the success of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, to the fourth one, in which a record 14 women became lawmakers, and then to the sixth Parliament, which did the most to address women’s demands, we will note little actual progress beyond minor alterations to some discriminatory laws such as those concerning inheritance and child custody, and even those changes were due to the fierce struggles of women’s rights activists, who drew public attention to the inequity of these laws. » read more
Iranian women call for greater representation in Parliament
Iranian women’s groups have called on Parliament’s Speaker, Ali Larijani, to increase the number of female MPs in the next Parliament, which will be voted on this coming March. » read more
Rights activist sentenced to three years in jail
The Iranian judiciary has sentenced women’s rights activist Fereshteh Shirazi to three years in prison. » read more
PEN demands release of Iranian writer, activist
More than 100 writers, poets and women’s rights activists are speaking out against the arrest of Faranak Farid, the Iranian journalist, poet and activist who was arrested on September 3 in Tabriz. » read more
Iranian activist arrested in Tabriz
Faranak Farid, an Iranian women’s rights activist, poet and translator, was arrested yesterday in Tabriz. » read more
Women's rights activist arrested in Qom
Maryam Bigdeli, an Iranian women's rights activist and a member of the One Million Signatures Campaign to End Discriminatory Laws, has been arrested in Qom to serve out a prison term she has challenged as illegal. » read more
