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, by AMANI Elahe
The feminist perspective on the death penalty in Iran reveals a complex interplay between gender, power, and the legal system.
At first glance, the death penalty might appear to be a matter of law or human rights, rather than a feminist concern. But in Iran, where gender deeply shapes legal (…)
, by THABET Mariam BahaaEldein
The monitoring group Iran Human Rights (IHRNGO) reported Monday that at least 31 women were executed in the country in 2024, which marks the highest annual toll since the group began tracking executions in the Islamic Republic 17 years ago. The report found that between 2010 and 2024, at least (…)
, by AMANI Elahe
Amidst the sham or state-orchestrated presidential election in Iran, a grim reality unfolds. Women are being violently arrested by the Morality Police for refusing to comply with mandatory hijab rules or wearing “improper” hijab, dubbed “Bad Hijab.” This misogynistic backlash follows the (…)
, par Union syndicale Solidaires
Women are the first victims of Iran’s patriarchal regime. Discrimination against women is institutionalized and organized, as underlined by the misogynistic laws based for the most part on Sharia law, which relegate them to the status of second-class citizens.
In addition to the fact that the (…)
, by ELHINNAWY Hind
The Nobel prize committee said Narges Mohammadi represented the struggle of many thousands of brave women fighting for their rights.
Prominent Iranian women’s rights advocate Narges Mohammadi has won the 2023 Nobel peace prize for her long fight against the oppression of women in Iran. (…)
, by DOLLAR Katy
Iran’s dictatorship tightened restrictions on medical abortions and banned the free distribution of contraceptives in 2021 amid a moral panic around the birth-rate. Iranian women have been choosing fewer children in part due to economic crisis.
This has led to public health alarm about (…)
, by DAFT Shireen
Recent media attention has drawn global focus on an escalating number of Iranian schoolgirls falling ill over the past few months because of suspected chemical attacks. Accounts differ, but many reports cite more than 1,000 cases of poisoning at schools across Iran. At least 58 schools in ten (…)
, by KIANPOUR Amir, MONTAZERI Omid
The time seems to be ripe for the women and the Kurds to write the last year of the Islamic State’s history through rewriting the year Zero of the Revolution.
On July 14, 1789, when the revolutionary insurgents stormed the Bastille in France, Louis XVI asked the Duc de La (…)
, by Collective / Multiple signers
We, Ukrainian feminists, express our solidarity with Iranian uprising, triggered by the brutal murder of Mahsa Amini by the Iranian moral police. Thousands of women responded to this crime by going out on the streets, cutting their hair and publicly taking off and burning hijabs as a symbol of (…)
, by Fourth International
Since 16 September Iran has been thrown into turmoil by widespread protests against the policies of the ruling clique. They were triggered by the brutal murder of the young woman Jîna (Mahsa) Amini, who was beaten to death by the “morality police”. The duration and the expansion of the (…)
, by LARRACHE Antoine, Soheyla
Soheyla, an activist of Socialist Solidarity with Workers in Iran (SSTI - France based), answered our questions during the demonstration in solidarity with the Iranian people, on Sunday 9 October in Paris. Interview by Antoine Larrache.
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What are the origins of this (…)
, by CFDT, CGT, FSU, Union syndicale Solidaires, UNSA
Anger is growing in Iran following the murder on 16 September of the young Masha Jina AMINI by the Vice religious Police. When her death was announced, protests took place in the Kurdish region where she was born, as well as in Tehran and several universities in the country.
In the immediate (…)
, by Socialist Solidarity with the Workers in Iran (SSTI)
After more than two weeks of protests, the street demonstrations are not only continuing, but intensifying. Slogans calling for the fall of the regime are becoming more and more numerous. In addition to their massive participation in the daily demonstrations, more and more young women are (…)
, by SAMEH Catherine
ON WEDNESDAY, September 28, the Middle East news site Jadaliyya hosted a live conversation on its Facebook and YouTube channels with five feminist scholars of Iran and its diasporas to discuss the current anti-government protests, sparked by the killing of Mahsa (Jina) Amini, a young Kurdish (…)
, by MAHDAVI Pardis
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 (…)
, by AJANG Bahman
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 (…)
, by STRZYŻYŃSKA Weronika
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 (…)
, by AJANG Bahman
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 (…)
, by CRUCIATI Chiara, KAMKARI Fariborz
This interview is republished from Il Manifesto who spoke about the uprising with Fariborz Kamkari, a Kurdish-Iranian director, author of the films The Flowers of Kirkuk and Being Kurdish, among others, and the novel Return to Iran.
It’s not easy to get accurate news of the uprising that has (…)
, by MUSTAFA Balsam
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 (…)
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