Iran: Woman questions being imprisoned for being Christian

Maryam Naghash Zargaran, the Christian prisoner of conscience, sent a letter out of Evin Prison, indicating the ...

Two Yazidi women win EP's Sakharov Award

The European Parliament's human rights prize, the Andrea Sakharov Award, is going to be granted this year to two Yazidi women from Iraq who were taken captive by the Islamic State forces...

Iran: Political prisoner Maryam Akbari deprived of visits

An official of Tehran's Prosecutor's Office reacted to the complaint filed by political prisoner Maryam Akbari Monfared...

Iran: Protest defending prisoner's rights dispersed

Security forces prevented the gathering of youths and women on Thursday, October 27, 2016, outside Tehran's Baghiyatollah Hospital...

Iran: Women's "substandard" attire collected in Isfahan

The Iranian regime persistently continues its efforts to further restrict women's right to freely choose their clothing and covering...

Iran: At least three women were arrested in Tehran demonstration

Those arrested in the Tehran demonstration for the release of prisoner of conscience Mohammad Ali Taheri were transferred ...

Iran: Child girl, 3, shot dead by security forces

A three-year-old girl, Raghad Sawari, got killed when directly shot at by security forces in Ahwaz's Kouy-e Alavi ...

Iran: Woman enduring 80 months of prison without any leave

Political prisoner Maryam Akbari Monfared has been in jail for over 80 months without a single day off...

Iran: Poverty spells disaster for women selling their unborn children

"Due to unsuitable conditions of caring for the child, an infant is offered for sale (20 days before being born)."...

Iran: Golrokh Iraee illegally arrested, taken to prison

Security forces violently raided the house of human rights activist Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee in the afternoon of Monday, October 24, 2016...

Iran: Five days of protest by women

The fifth day of protest by women and prisoner rights advocates was held outside Tehran's Baghiyatollah Hospital...

Iran: Corpse of young woman found on campus of Orumiyeh University

The lifeless body of a Kurdish student, a young woman, was found on campus of the Orumiyeh University (northwestern Iran) on Sunday, October 23, 2016...

Iran: Women beaten up and arrested in protest rally

Recent reports indicate that a number of women were beaten up and arrested in the protest rally demanding freedom of ...

Syrian girl, 7, tweets her pains

Bana Alabed, a 7-year-old Syrian girl, used the twitter to convey the voice of Syrian children to the world....

Carolin Emcke receives Peace Prize of the German Book Trade

The German journalist and author Carolin Emcke has frequently written and reported from war zones and crisis regions...

Iran: Women declare support for Teachers Union SG, labor activist

A group of woman teachers declared their support on October 22, 2016, for the Secretary General of the Teachers Corporate Union of Iran,...

Iran: Bahaii woman tells of pressure on her child

Azita Rafizadeh, a Bahaii woman, who has been imprisoned in Evin for teaching at a Bahaii college, sent out a letter ...

Junko Tabei, 1st woman to climb Everest, dies at 77

Japanese mountaineer Junko Tabei, the first woman to climb Mount Everest died, on October 20, 2016, at age 77...

Iran: Jailed Kurdish woman at risk of going blind - AI

Amnesty International issued a statement on the situation of Kurdish prisoner Zeinab Jalalian who is denied badly needed ...

Iran: Year-long planning to force Hijab on girl students

New restrictions are going to be imposed on girl students of Ahwaz's Jondi-Shapour School of Medical Sciences in a bid to ...

Iran: Imprisoned woman dies of heart attack

An imprisoned woman lost her life due to heart attack in the women's ward of the Central Prison of Orumiyeh...

Iran: All modelling activities banned

Secretary of the fashion working group formally announced that all forms of fashion and modelling activities are going to ...

Iran: Preschool teachers stage protest in Golestan

Dozens of preschool teachers in the northern province of Golestan staged a protest on Thursday, October 20, 2016, outside the Governor's Office in Golestan....

Iran: Women protest unfair detention of prisoner of conscience

Students and supporters of prisoner of conscience Mohammad Ali Taheri staged a protest on Thursday, October 20, 2016...

Iran: Reyhaneh Jabbari commemorated despite mother's arrest

The memorial ceremony for Reyhaneh Jabbari was raided today, October 20, 2016, and her mother, Sholeh Pakravan, was arrested...

Iran: Systematic discriminations against women underlined in UN report

The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran submitted his latest report to the Third Committee of the ...

Iran: Third day of protest by girl students of Neishabour

Girl students of the University of Neishabour (northeastern Iran) staged a protest for the third consecutive day to protest ...

Iran: IRGC arrests more models

The Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) issued an official statement on October 19, 2016, announcing the arrest of 24 individuals who were active in the modelling field...

Iran: Young women of Qum University protest discrimination

Girl students of the University of Qum expressed their protest on Tuesday, October 18, 2016, against discriminations and deprivations in the university policies...

Iran: Women arrested as beggars

Iran: Women arrested as beggarsThe general prosecutor of Maragheh (northwestern Iran) announced on October 17, 2016, that 18 orphan children and five women had been arrested while begging...

Iran: Female reporters banned from women's match

Female reporters were not allowed entry to the stadium to take pictures of the football match between women of Iran and Russia...

Iran: Call for institutionalization of women's oppression

Mohammad Reza Naghdi, Commander of the IRGC's paramilitary Bassij Force underlined the need to fundamentally institutionalize social repression...

Iran: Political prisoner files official lawsuit on 1988 massacre

Political prisoner Maryam Akbari Monfared has formally filed a lawsuit against Evin Prison because of the 1988 massacre and the executions of her sister and brothers...

Iran: Women's gathering outside Qezel-Hessar Prison

On the morning of Monday, October 17, 2016, a group of women including mothers and wives of the prisoners were ...

Iran: Prisoners in women's ward of Evin under further pressure

Authorities have built up more pressure in recent days on women inmates in Evin Prison....

Iran: Rights activist woman demands lifting of Hijab requirement

Children and civil rights activist Atena Da'emi wrote a letter on October 17, 2016, to the Women's International Chess Federation...

Iran: Mansoureh Behkish has been summoned

Sunday, October 16, 2016, a relative of the victims of the 1980s political executions, Ms. Mansoureh Behkish, was summoned to the second interrogation branch of Evin Prison...

Iran: Six labor activists including two women sentenced to prison

Six Kurdish labor activists including two women have been sentenced to a total of 4.5 years imprisonment...

Iran: Soaring rate of divorce in Ardabil

Director General for the Registration of Census in the Province of Ardabil, northwestern Iran, announced that the number of divorces in that province...

Iran: Wife of political prisoner complains of harassment

Nastaran Na'imi spoke out against security forces' harassment of her and her family.
Ms. Na'imi's husband, political prisoner Soheil Arabi, was first ...

Iran: British REDRESS urges release of Nazanin Zaghari

The British human rights NGO, REDRESS, issued a statement on October 13, 2016, calling on the British Government to ...

Iran: 16 were arrested in a Tehran party

Sixteen girls and boys were arrested on Tuesday, October 11, 2016, in Tehran.Those arrested had celebrated the Iranian national football ...

Iran: UN body demands release of Nazanin Zaghari

The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detentions has strongly condemned the imprisonment of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and ...

Iran: Giving tuition discount to girls wearing the veil

The Azad University of Sarein gives 15% discount to girl students who wear the head-to-toe black veil or Chador...

Iran: 20 prohibitions for Iranian women - DW

Women in Iran face prohibitions that women face nowhere else in the world. The Farsi website of Deutsche Welle Radio (www.dw.com) listed 20 of these prohibitions as the following:...

Iran: Bereaved mother protests oppression of the ruling mullahs

Ms. Shahin Mahinfar posted a letter on October 13, 2016, saying that she could watch the video clip of how his son got killed for the first time after seven years...

Iran: Baluchi girl arrested, taken to unknown location

Security forces in Sistan-o Baluchistan (southeastern Iran) arrested a Baluchi girl on October 10, 2016, for criticizing the religious ceremonies of Ashura on the social networks...

Iran: MEPs urge censure of 1988 massacre of 1000s of women

Following human rights organizations' widespread protests to the 1988 massacre of political prisoners in Iran, 60 members of the European Parliament issued a statement on October 12...

Iran: Tragedy of divorced girl children

A member of Children's Rights Association announced that the number of divorced children has increased. "We have 36,000...

Nadia Murad awarded human rights prize

The Council of Europe awarded its Václav Havel human rights prize on October 10, 2016, to the Iraqi activist Nadia Murad...