Category: Opression of Women
Women banned from working as secretaries in Bushehr offices
The Bushehr Governor cited the ban on the use of female secretaries for [company] managers and said, “The plan for gender segregation for office employees in Bushehr will be carried out”… “Promoting virtue and prohibiting vice is a public duty and because everyone does not carry out this duty well enough, this issue has become [...]
Iran bans skiing for women without legal chaperons
Women have been banned from entering skiing ramps alone. This is a new order from State Security Forces which even includes women over 18. In this rule, all women need to have a ‘guardian’ and are banned from entering ski grounds. With the start of the skiing season, security forces stationed in ski grounds around [...]
Iranian Cleric Mohsen Ghara’ati Blames Women Opposing Polygamy
HRANA News Agency – In his weekly televised lessons aired on IRIB Channel 1, Iranian cleric Mohsen Ghara’ati blamed women for opposing polygamy and standing in the way of their husbands who wish to get a second wife. Hojat-ol-Islam Mohsen Ghara’ati is the head of the Center for the Promotion of Prayers and a Muslim scholar [...]
15 female students banned from mid-term registration at university for not participating in mandatory ‘chastity’ session
After Hossein Saleh Nejad, the former head of the Science and Industrial University Bassij Department was appointed as the head of the School of Architecture at this university, a wave of insulting treatments of students started at this university. In his latest measure, this university official, who has close ties to security forces, banned 15 [...]
Three Years of Imprisonment for Women’s Rights Activist Maryam Ghorbanifar
The 3 year imprisonment sentence of Maryam Ghorbanifar has been served to her lawyer. According to the Human Rights House of Iran, she has been senteneced for acting agianst national security, gathering and conspiracy agianst the regime. She was arrested in February and was held in solitary confinement until she was released on bail after [...]
Three Girls Under 10 Married in Azerbaijan
HRANA News Agency – Mohammad Javan, the Director of Civil Resgistry in West Azerbaijan Province, has reported that marriages of three girls under the age of 10 have been recorded in this province since the beginning of the current [Persian] year. According to a report by Sirwan Weekly Publication, Mohammad Javan also announced that amongst [...]
Iranian regime bans women from house ownership
http://www.asriran.com/fa/news/181286 A woman cannot own a house from the Mehr Housing Company and her husband’s name has to be registered on the house ownership papers. This is while married women were able to request to become the owner of the Mehr Housing [more than single women in the past]. In the past few weeks, many [...]
Head of Iran’s Environmentalist Organization says women should stay at home
http://www.khabaronline.ir/news-173191.aspx Fatemeh Vaez Javadi, the head of the Environmental Organization of the ninth government believes that ‘God has exempted women from the three great responsibilities of being a breadwinner, Jihad [participating in war] and judging”. “But now, 33 years after the revolution, with the presence of women in various sectors of the society, we are [...]
Women’s ward in Evin prison continues to face difficulties
Committee of Human Rights Reporters (CHRR) – Following the transfer of women political prisoners to a separate ward in Evin prison, it was anticipated that conditions would improve, however they still facing many difficulties. According to their families, during the past month, especially during the month of Ramadan, the store in the women’s ward, which has always faced [...]
محکومیت قطعی نسرین ستوده به شش سال حبس
محکومیت قطعی نسرین ستوده به شش سال حبس Imprisoned Human RIghts lawyer has been condemned to 6 years in prison خبرگزاری هرانا – نسرین ستوده وکیل پایه یک دادگستری از سوی شعبه ۵۴ دادگاه تجدید نظر به شش سال حبس و ۱۰ سال محرومیت از وکالت محکوم شد. بنا به اطلاع گزارشگران هرانا، ارگان خبری [...]
Iran shuts down diving club because of female instructor
A diving club was shut down in Kish by the Kish Security Police Public Places Supervision Management because the club was not following Islamic laws in placing a female instructor for men. After reports and intelligence regarding the offences of a diving club in Kish Island, the Kish Security Police Public Places Supervision Management looked [...]
Cleric demands government crackdown on so-called ‘improper veiling’
Ayatollah Safi Golpaygani said, “Everyone should know that the display of improper veiling is breaking the holy sanctum of Sharia and normalizing sins and also sets a bad example. It is considered the distribution of corruption and the government should deal with it”. This Shiite cleric also stressed on the necessity of prohibiting vice, promoting [...]
و اینگونه سی ساله می شویم! نوشتهی عاطفه نبوی از درون زندان
Letter from political prisoner Atefeh Nabavi: ” And this is how I turn 30 years old” کمیته گزارشگران حقوق بشر- عاطفه نبوی، زندانی سیاسی محبوس در زندان اوین، در آستانهٔ سی امین سالروز تولدش در نامهای که نسخهای از آن در اختیار کمیته گزارشگران حقوق بشر قرار گرفته است، شرایط خود در زندان را به [...]