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Shouts of “death to the dictator” and “woman, life, freedom” are reverberating throughout the streets of Iran following the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman, while in custody of the “morality police” in Tehran.
These protests have echoes from past resistance movements. For the past two (...)
Protests in Iran erupted on Friday 16 September after the death in police custody of Mahsa-Jina Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman. She had been arrested on Tuesday 13 by the morality police for a few strands of supposedly “indecent” hair protruding from her Islamic dress, in application of (...)
Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurd, dies after ‘violent arrest’ for infringing hijab rules amid Iranian crackdown on women’s dress
A 22-year-old woman has died in an Iranian hospital days after being detained by the regime’s morality police for allegedly not complying with the country’s hijab (...)
Protests in Iran erupted on Friday 16 September after the death in police custody of Mahsa-Jina Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman. She had been arrested on Tuesday 13 by the morality police for a few strands of supposedly “indecent” hair protruding from her Islamic dress, in application of (...)
Iranian authorities have cracked down on protests which erupted after the death in custody of a 22-year-old woman who was arrested by the morality police for not wearing the hijab appropriately. The death of Mahsa Amini who was reportedly beaten after being arrested for wearing her hijab (...)
Kurdistan governor blames deaths on ‘plot by the enemy’ on fourth day of protests over 22-year-old’s death in custody
Protests across Iran after 22-year-old woman dies in police detention – video
Iranian government officials have denounced a fourth day of protests after the death of a (...)
Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian woman, was travelling with her family from Iran’s western province of Kurdistan to the capital, Tehran, to visit relatives when she fell foul of Iran’s notorious morality police. Stopped for failing to meet the required standards for wearing the mandatory hijab, (...)
In the years that the people of Iran have lived under the flag of tyranny of the Islamic Republic, they have faced all kinds of repressions and violence. With the inauguration of Ibrahim Raeesi as president in 2021, the executioner of the 1990s who led the murder of thousands of militant (...)
The murder of Mahsa Amini, a young Iranian Kurdish woman, by the Tehran morality police has sparked large protests in various cities inside Iran. The 22 year old Amini was arrested on September 13 because of her “improper” hijab and died shortly thereafter when she went into a coma following (...)
The country faces a litany of problems, from inflation to a democratic deficit, and the women’s movement is seen as an agent of change
On the day that news of Mahsa Amini’s death spread throughout Iran, a young woman with a shaved head joined protesters who had gathered outside Kasra hospital, (...)
Iranian human rights attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh warns America: “As someone who lived through this loss of freedom and democracy, I can offer a warning: It will not end with this Supreme Court decision on abortion.”
Nasrin Sotoudeh in Tehran, Iran. Being outside without a hijab, Sotoudeh is risking (...)
Decades-old sexual trauma is being unearthed in a society that rarely speaks about it but can change come to fruition?
Tehran, Iran – Countless Iranians have taken to social media in recent weeks to recount their experiences of sexual abuse, bringing to the fore a topic that remained taboo for (...)
The Observatory has been informed by the League for the Defence of Human Rights in Iran (LDDHI) about the conviction and sentencing of Ms. Nasrin Sotoudeh, a human rights lawyer and 2012 laureate of the European Parliament’s Sakharov Prize, to 33 years in jail and 148 lashes.
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Interview of Fariba by Shirin Shalkooi, Brussels February 2019. Can you introduce yourself ?
I’m Fariba, I’m a communist women and a member of the 8 March Women’s Organisation (Iran-Afghanistan) . It is an independent and democratic organisation with a revolutionary approach. By « democratic », (...)
In conversation with the Iranian journalist about her autobiography, the problems plaguing Iran, her fight against the oppression of women in the country and more.
Women protest against compulsory hijab in Iran. Credit: Facebook/My Stealthy Freedom
For anyone unfamiliar with Iran, journalist (...)
Masih Alinejad has paid a high price for letting her hair down and criticising her government. She’s been sentenced to prison, fled her native Iran and is unable to see her family. Here, she reveals why all she wants is to give women the choice to wear the hijab or not
Veil of tears: many (...)
“The Free Union of Iranian Workers considers itself part of the movement for liberation from gender discrimination and any type of inequality in the social life of human beings. Thus we condemn the attacks on justice-seeking and freedom-loving women and men in front of the Ministry of Labor. (...)
We the signatories of this statement, refuse to separate our opposition to U.S. imperialism and any imperialist war drive on Iran, from our support for the progressive and revolutionary social justice struggles of Iranian women, workers and oppressed minorities against their regime.
As (...)
These are incredibly courageous acts in a country in which the hijab is compulsory, and where women who do not wear their headscarves properly can be arrested, assaulted, face fines, lashes and imprisonment. . . These acts of protest are part of a broader wave of mass protests for social (...)
The protests have coincided with demonstrations against economic conditions in eastern Iran
Iranian police have arrested 29 women in the capital, Tehran, after they protested against a law that makes wearing the hijab compulsory.
Women across the country have been protesting by climbing onto (...)
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