Iran: Kites fly higher on winds blowing from opposite direction

"Kites fly higher on winds blowing from opposite direction," was the title of a statement posted by the former political prisoner and artist, Atena Farghadani, on September 29, 2016...

Iran: Woman executed along with her husband

A woman was executed Thursday morning, September 29, 2016, in the Central Prison of Orumiyeh (northwestern Iran), along with her husband and six other prisoners...

Iran: Political prisoner under pressure for spying on others

Political prisoner Maryam Akbari Monfared was pressured for body inspection by agents in Evin Prison, but she protested and refused to give in to such inspection...

New document reveals execution of 13-year-old girls

A letter by Ayatollah Hossein-Ali Montazeri published on September 27, 2016, reveals horrific crimes committed by the clerical regime's judiciary against unarmed 13-year-old girls in 1981...

Iran: SSF Special Force's new women's battalion

 Commander of the Special Unit of the State Security Force announced formation of a "women's battalion" in the force...

Iran: Increasing number of women and girls who escape to the capital

Recent statistics indicate a 12% increase in the number of women and girls who escape to Tehran...

Syrian journalist accuses UK over passport seizure

London (AFP), September 25, 2016 - A Syrian journalist on Sunday accused the UK of playing into the hands of Bashar al-Assad's regime, following the confiscation of her...

Iran: Women demand reform of employment-of-teachers law

On the first day of the opening of the mullahs' parliament on September 25, 2016, a group of teachers gathered across from the parliament building to demand their rights...

Iran: Justice pour les victimes de 1988 Comité Massacre formé

CNRI Femmes – Le comité « Justice pour les victimes du massacre de 1988 en Iran » a annoncé sa formation le 21 septembre 2016 à Genève...

Ségrégation et répression de la mixité en Iran

Ségrégation et répression de la mixité en IranCNRI Femmes – Le régime des mollahs renforce la ségrégation des sexes dans les lieux publics et privés en Iran. Le procureur de la province d’Alborz...

Des femmes visées par l’appareil sécuritaire en Iran

CNRI Femmes – Somayeh Alidousti, professeur de physique à l'Université de Oroumiyeh (nord-ouest de l'Iran), a été convoquée au parquet...

Iran: Les filles sont loin de l’égalité des chances dans l’éducation

CNRI Femmes – « 3.200.000 enfants sont actuellement privés d'éducation », a annoncé officiellement Shahindokht Molaverdi le 24 septembre, au lendemain...

Iran: Female athletes summoned to the Prosecutor's Office

A number of women and coaches involved in body building were summoned by the Iranian Judiciary on September 19, 2016. They are...

Iran: Universities ordered to implement Veil and Virtue Plan

The cultural deputy to the Minister of Science announced September 19, 2016, that the ministry had instructed universities to implement the Veil and Virtue Plan...

Iran: Revision trial held for Nargess Mohammadi

The revision trial for Nargess Mohamamdi, political prisoner and Vice President of the League of Human Rights Advocates, was held on Monday,..

Iran: We demand prosecution of all officials engaged in 1988 massacre

Park-e Laleh Mothers, a group of women who have lost their children mostly during the 2009 uprising, issued a statement demanding justice for their slain children.

Iran: Women's working-hour cut down approved by Council of Guardians

The clerical regime's Council of Guardians approved cut down on women's working hours on Monday, September 19, 2016...

Iran: Tehran Prosecutor stresses more clampdown on women

Tehran Prosecutor's third meeting on women's "veiling and virtue" was held on September 7, 2016, in the Iranian capital...

Iran: Khamenei issues fatwa depriving women from bicycling in public

Khamenei formally announced his opposition to women's riding bicycle in public. In a fatwa published by the state-run Fars news agency, Khamenei said,..

Iran: 7-year-old girl dies under rubbles

A seven-year-old girl died under the debris when a wall collapsed on her head at the school.
Fariba Chadivari and three of her friends had gone to their school in Chabahar ...

Iran: A little girl's last visit to her father

Sara Mansour Balaghi is the daughter of Khaled Mansour Balaghi who was executed along with 24 other Sunni political prisoners on August 2, 2016...

Iran: Renewed wave clampdown on models

State security forces have recently stepped up their clampdown on women engaged in modelling and advertisement of women's clothing...

Iran: Final group of Camp Liberty residents successfully left Iraq

The final group of Camp Liberty residents (more than 280) left Iraq, in the afternoon of September 9, 2016...

ran: Bahaii women accused of acting against national security

Four Baha'ii  summoned to the Court of Isfahan on Wednesday morning, September 7, 2016, to be informed of their charges...

Iran: Two young women from Kurdistan detained in jail

Lavin Karimi, student of management, has been arrested and detained for collaborating with a dissident Kurdish group...

Iran: Mothers prevented from holding memorial ceremony

In the wake of call by activist mothers of Laleh Park to hold a memorial service for Shahrokh Zamani on the anniversary of this death,..

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Human Rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh did not attend the trial arranged for her on Saturday, September 3, 2016...

Iran: High rate of divorce

"One out of every four marriages in Iran leads to divorce," said Shahindokht Molaverdi, Rouhani's deputy in women and family affairs...

A prisoner's letter: The savior is on her way

Excerpts of a letter by Maryam Akbari Monfared
This is the seventh year that I'm not with her. She was 3.5 when we were separated...

Iran: 825 women's clothing stores sealed in new clampdown

Security forces have added to their efforts in collecting women's clothes and sealing apparel stores...

Iran: Khamenei reiterates women's childbearing, housekeeping roles

In a 16-point decree issued on September 3, 2016, the mullahs' supreme leader Ali Khamenei set the general outlines of the Iranian regime's Family Policy for all government organs...

Pope declares Mother Teresa a saint and model of mercy

VATICAN CITY (AP) Sep. 4, 2016 — Pope Francis declared Mother Teresa a saint on Sunday, praising the tiny nun for having taken in society's most unwanted and for having...

Iran: Women deployed to clampdown on women in Ardebil

Female members of the paramilitary Bassij will be deployed in Ardebil to better monitor and clamp down on women in the streets...

Iran: Call for further discrimination against women

A senior mullah distorted the statistics on women's employment in Iran to call for further discriminatory measures against Iranian women and girls...

Iran: Jila Shahriari returned to Evin's Women's Ward

A Baha'ii citizen was transferred from Evin's notorious Cellblock 209 to the Women's Ward on Tuesday, August 13, 2016...

Iran: Women's violation of dress code considered a crime

Semnan's Prosecutor said it is a crime for women to wear clothes that do not comply with government standards...

Iran: 1000 nurses escape Iran every year

International relations director of the Nursing Regime Organization declared that more than 1,000 nurses leave Iran every year...

Iran: Amnesty International calls for release Homa Hoodfar

In a statement issued on August 30, Amnesty International of Canada demanded unconditional and immediate release of Homa Hoodfar...

Iran: Raheleh Rahemipour summoned, interrogated again

Evin Prison's prosecurtor summoned Ms. Raheleh Rahemipour for the second time on Monday, August 29, 2016...