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: 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: 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:...