Iran: Atena Farghadani challenges corrupt rulers

Atena Farghadani, former political prisoner and artist, posted her latest work of art in her Facebook account with the following note:...

Fate of Iran rulers tied to women's veil (Hijab)

Why have Tehran mullahs begun a new round of repression of women?
Thirty-eight years after the clerical regime took power in Iran...

Iran: Moral security patrols equipped with motorboats

In an effort to step up activities of the “moral security” patrols against women, they have been equipped with motorboats in the southern Iranian city of Dezful....

Iran: Women’s football team dissolved

One of the most active women’s football team called Malavan (Sailor) was dissolved upon a decision made by the club's general director....

Iran: Execution is an act of barbarism

Ms. Sholeh Pakravan, activist against the death penalty, recently wrote about the death sentence of a Kurdish political prisoner Shahram Ahmadi....

Simin Behbahani becomes eternal

Iran's lady of poetry is no longer among us, but will be forever remembered through her beautiful poems depicting the pain of our people and country...

Chronology of female suffrage

1946 Cameroon, North Korea, Djibouti (to vote), Guatemala, Liberia, Myanmar (to stand for election), Panama  , Romania  , Macedonia, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela, Vietnam, Yugoslavia...

Assia Djebar, Algerian women’s rights activists passed away

Algerian writer and filmmaker Assia Djebar passed away at the age of 78 in a hospital in Paris. Her body will be laid to rest in her coastal hometown of Sharshal near Algeria this week...

Dr. Fatemeh Sayyah

In 1942, Dr. Fatemeh Sayyah became Iran's First Female Professor when she was awarded the...

Forbidden fields for Iranian women under Iranian regime's laws

State-run Khabar online July 2012
This year, 36 different universities in Iran, are banning any female student to enroll in several fields of study. Such fields of study were open to all students, male and female last year but a ...

Shocking: Price to be relieved of orphans, step-fathers can marry step-daughters

Considering that the new law ‘supporting’ children without caretakers or those with irresponsible caretakers have allowed single women to take custody of a girl, a footnote on article 27 of this law ...

Segments of inheritance law under mullahs’ misogynist regime

The state-run Mashreq news website published segments of the reactionary inheritance law under the mullahs’ regime in relation to women. The following is to provide an understanding of ...

“Female prisoners who are virgins must be raped before execution, to prevent them from entering heaven.”

Excerpts of Montazeri’s book on the rape of women in the Iranian regime’s prisons:
In December 2000, Hossein Ali-Montazeri, a 79-year-old cleric who had been for 10 years the designated successor to Khomeini,...

A glance at the Comprehensive Plan of Population and Upgrading of Families

The Iranian regime’s parliament adopted the general outlines of the Comprehensive Plan of Population and Upgrading of Families in 2013, with the aim of population growth...

Women 'arrested for riding bicycles' in Iran and made to sign pledge never to cycle in public again

Female cyclists have previously been arrested for flouting the country's modesty laws
The Independent, by Lizzie Dearden
Thursday 28 July 2016...

Iran: Call for further restrictions on working women

A state-backed mullah called for imposing even further restrictions on working women in Iran, while they have a share of only 10% of the workforce and economic participation...

Iran: ‌Mothers’ beautiful act of solidarity in Khavaran Cemetery

Mothers of the victims of popular uprisings in Iran in 1999 and 2009, joined the families of the political prisoners massacred in 1988, in a joint ceremony in Khavaran Cemetery....

Iran: Fate of Kurdish woman remains uncertain

Kurdish student Sahar Feizi was arrested more than two weeks ago on July 13, 2016 by the Department of Intelligence of Saghez,..

Indira Gandhi

Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi (Hindustani: [ˈɪnːdɪrə ˈɡaːnd̪ʱi] )November, 16 1917 – October, 31 1984)  was the third Prime Minister of India and a central figure of the Indian National Congress party...

The history of women’s suffrage in France

For the first time 70 years ago, women received voting rights in France. Finland was also the first European country that gave this right to women in 1906....

Benazir Bhutto - Prime Minister of Pakistan

Benazir Bhutto was born on June 21, 1953, in Karachi in an educated family. She was the daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Pakistan's former prime minister...

Iran: Security forces attacked rally in Tabriz

Hundreds of Azerbaijani citizens gathered on July 26, 2016, to protest against the denigrating stories published in Tarh-e No newspaper against the Turks....

Alenoush Terian - First astrophysics professor in Iran

Alenush Terian was born in Tehran on November 9, 1920.
Her Father translated parts of Shahnameh (a masterpiece by Iran’s great poet, Ferdowsi) into Armenian language. Her mother graduated in literature from Switzerland....

The first women pilots in Iran

A study of Iran’s history reveals that women were able to break through different barriers and move forward ...

Nayyer Nassabi: I discovered my cause in the face of adversity

My name is Nayyer Saadat Nassabi.
My beloved sister, Azam, was executed by the Iranian regime solely for seeking freedom....

FEMALE POLITICAL PRISONERS AND CONDITIONS OF WOMEN'S WARDS IN IRANIAN PRISONS

At least 40 women are imprisoned on political, ideological and security charges in a number of prisons in Iran...

69 women executed in Iran under Rouhani

According to the data collected on the executions carried out during Rouhani's tenure,
the Iranian regime has executed more than 2300 persons from August 2013 to  July 2016. ...

Iran: Only 16 out of 3000 job opportunities are for women

Khabar Online website published a report on women’s abysmal employment conditions and wrote, the government’s employment record for (this year) is a clear example of discrimination....

Iran: SSF Commander defends crack down on women

“By stepping up social security plans, making arrests and dealing with mal-veiling, also dealing with violating businesses selling clothes,...

Iran: Women banned from riding bicycles in Marivan

SSF agents prevented women and girls from participating in the “Pure Tuesday” bicycle marathon....

Iran: Hunger striking prisoner taken to dispensary

On her 22nd day of hunger strike, Christian prisoner of conscience, Maryam Naghash Zargaran was taken to the prisons’...

Nayyer Nassabi: I discovered my cause in the face of adversity

My name is Nayyer Saadat Nassabi.
My beloved sister, Azam, was executed by the Iranian regime solely for seeking freedom.
She was older than me,...

Iran: Wife of murdered political prisoner arrested

Ms. Maryam Alangi, wife of late political prisoner Mohsen Dogmechi, was summoned with her son to the Prosecutor's Office on July 24,...

Iran: 150 young girls and boys arrested in a birthday party

Some 150 young girls and boys were arrested for attending a birthday party in western Tehran....

Iran: City officials denied burial to Baha’ii citizen

After the passing away of Ms. Pouran Enayati, a Baha’ii citizen, her family has not been able to receive permission for her burial in their hometown of Tabriz...

Iran: Mullah demands making black chador mandatory for school girls

Iran: Mullah demands making black chador maThe pillars of the mullahs’ regime are shaken even by the color of primary school girl’s uniform.datory for school girls...

Iran: Women's apparel collected from commercial businesses

Six business units were shut down in the central Iranian Alborz Province in the security forces' inspections for offering women's clothing which do not conform to the official dress code standards...

Iran: Security maneuvers on Mazandaran’s beaches

Security plans to control women’s veiling will intensify on Mazadaran Province's beaches.
This was announced by Mahmoud Mirfeizi, SSF Commander in this northern Iranian province. He said, “In line with social security maneuvers, 102 plans will be implemented in 72 points of Mazandaran’s beaches.”...

Iran: Marriage of girls 7-11 years of age

On July 11, 2016, the state-run Shahrvand newspaper published a report about child brides in a village in the northwestern province of West Azarbaijan. “Girls in Pasak-e Sofla get engaged between 7 and 11 years of age.”
The news caused much controversy among the regime’s domestic officials and the regional governor who attempted to whitewash the facts...

Iran: Woman with two children gets imprisoned in Evin

Leila Sabz Ali Jama'at, an instructor of Erfan Halgheh (mystic school), turned in herself to the Evin Prison's Prosecutor's Office to start serving her prison term...

Iran: UK FCO concerned about human rights, women

The UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office published a report on July 24, 2016, on the human rights situation in Iran,
in which it stressed on Rouhani's failure to deliver on his promises to improve the situation of women in Iran. The "Iran-Human Rights Priority Country" wrote in part:...

Loss of life due to Iraq’s medical blockade against Iranian opposition reaches 22

NCRI – With the passing away of another Iranian opposition official in Albania on Wednesday (November 5, 2014) the number of lives lost due to the medical blockade imposed on Ashraf and Liberty reaches twenty-two...

Urgent: Medical blockade in Camp Liberty may lead to blinding of some residents

Camp Liberty residents deserve free access to medical care and the inhuman obstruction and medical siege must be stopped.
53 who have been waiting for months for eye surgery, but each time Iraqi forces have prevented their trip to Baghdad...

Human rights day in Camp Liberty

On Wednesday, December 10, dozens of Iranian women, members of opposition to the Islamic fundamentalist regime of Iran, in Camp Liberty marked Human Rights Day and held placards calling for human rights to be respected in the camp...

Iraq: 23rd Iranian member of PMOI passes away due to medical siege on Camp Liberty

NCRI - At 6:30 this morning of January 13, 2015, Ms. Mahin Afzali suffered a heart attack and subsequently lost her life at the Iraqi clinic in Camp Liberty due to cardiac arrest...

Symbol of patience and steadfastness

Name: Fatemeh
Last name: Poulchi
Year of birth: 1963
City of birth: Tehran
Education: High School
Date of execution: 1987
Place of execution: Tehran
Method of execution: Death due to infections caused by vicious torture
Jairan never spoke…. Jairan was a star…

Symbol of bravery and livelihood

Name: La'ya
Last name: Onsorian
Year of birth: 1963
City of birth: Tabriz
Education: High school
Date of execution: 29 June 1981
Place of execution: Tabriz Prison
Method of execution: Firing squad – shooting to her abdomen
La'ya was born in Tabriz in 1963 and was 18 at the time of her execution. She was a very active student at Abu Ali Sina School, pursuing the truth...

Iran: A new plan to crack down on women of Gilan

A new suppressive plan has been launched in the Northern Province of Gilan to impose even further restrictions on women.
The plan, entitled of “Innocent Gilan,” is implemented in 48 recreational and tourist areas and beaches. Deputy Chief of Police in Gilan Province, Jafari Kheirkhah, said, “Veiling and Virtue are the trenches for social security.”...

Iran: Abysmal conditions of women and children in a village

“Cheshmeh Shoor” is the name of a village located near the Holy City of Qom. The inhabitants of this village are deprived of piped water. Their needed water is provided by tankers...

Iran: Young woman commits suicide

A 23 year-old young woman threw herself off the seventh floor of a building and lost her life on July 22 in Tehran...