Iran: Hunger strike to defend Iranian women's rights

Simultaneous with the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women on November 25, political prisoner ...

Iran: Children of female prisoners detained in dungeons

With the Iranian Resistance's Justice Seeking Movement gaining further momentum, Iranians reveal more and more details on...

UN: Violence against women ‘serious obstacle’ to sustainable development

In a message marking the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon ...

Iran: International Day for Elimination of VAW at Evin Prison's women's ward

Evin's imprisoned women marked the International Day for Elimination of Violence Against Women...

Iran: Political prisoner recounts horror of jail after her escape

Shabnam Madadzadeh is one of the most famous student activists who was imprisoned six years in Iran for her activities ...

Iran: Women's rights activist falsely summoned, arrested

Women's rights activist Aliyeh Motallebzadeh was arrested and imprisoned on Saturday, November 26, 2016, when she ...

Iran: Women badly injured, arrested in Tehran protest

A number of women were badly beaten up or arrested while participating in a protest gathering outside the Ministry of Interior in Tehran...

22823 women have been killed or disappeared in Syria

According to a report published by the Human Rights Network of Syria, a total of 22823 women have either lost their lives or...

Iran: Civil activist woman violently arrested, taken to prison

Atena Daemi was arrested in a violent raid on her residence in the morning of Saturday, November 26, 2016, and transferred ...

Iran: Women go on hunger strike to protest harsh treatment in prison

A number of women have gone on an unlimited hunger strike in Varamin's Qarchak Prison and Tehran's Central Fashafouyeh ...

Iran: Human rights defender faces national security charges - AI

Amnesty International issued an urgent action on November 24, 2016, warning about spurious charges against human...

ایران: انحلال یک تیم فوتبال دیگر زنان

مدیر عامل باشگاه استقلال از انحلال کامل تیم فوتبال زنان استقلال خبر داد. رضا افتخاری علت این اقدام را مشکلات مالی عنوان کرد

ایران: ادامه موج حمایت از دادخواهی مریم اکبری

شماری از مادران در اصفهان در بیانیه ای حمایت خود را از اعلام دادخواهی مریم اکبری منفرد اعلام کردند. آنها در بیانیه خود گفتند سوالات مریم اکبری درباره علت و 

ایران: دختر دانشجو به دادگاه احضار می شود

سحر فیضی، دانشجوی کرد، از سوی دادگاه شهرستان سقز ، احضاریه دریافت کرده است. در برگه‌ی دادگاه از او خواسته شده که ٢٩آذر ۹۵ جهت صدور حکم  در دادگاه حضور یابد

ایران: مدافع حقوق بشر با اتهامات امنیت ملی روبرو است – عفو بین الملل

عفو بین‌الملل با صدور یک اعلامیه اقدام فوری در تاریخ ۴ آذر ۹۵ در مورد خطر دستگیری و بازداشت مدافع حقوق بشر منصوره بهکیش هشدار داد

Iran: The many faces of violence against women

37 years on, the mullahs' regime has not eased up on its violent policies and conducts against Iran's women and girls ...

Iran: Political prisoner Sedigheh Moradi was released from prison

Resistant political prisoner Sedigheh Moradi was released from the Women's Ward of the Evin Prison today, November...

Iran: Women activists honor world day against VAW

Activist women and mothers of Laleh Park honored the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against ...

Iran: Young women, students defy being treated like prisoners

One of the students participating in the protest sit-in at Tehran University's Chamran Dormitory explained the main reason for ...

Iran: Tehran wants £650m to release dual-national woman

The Iranian regime has demanded £650 million to release Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British-Iranian national who was ...

Iran: Violence against women in Tehran's streets

The gathering of women and apprentice of prisoner of conscience Mohammad Ali Taheri was viciously attacked by ...

Iran: Growing divorce rate

The spokesman for the Census Registry Organization announced the figures on divorce in the first seven months of ...

Iran: Violence against peddler woman attracts vast solidarity with her

Following the November-17 beating of a peddler woman by a municipality agent in Fouman (northern Iran), she received a ...

Iran: Young women protest dorm's requirement of Hijab

A group of girl students staged a protest gathering on Tuesday night, November 22, 2016, at Tehran University's Chamran dormitory...

Iran: Women's gathering in front of the UN office in Tehran

Dozens of women and supporters of the prisoner of conscience Mohammad Ali Taheri, staged a protest rally on the ...

Iran: Violence against woman peddler outrages the public

Slapping a peddler woman in the northern Iranian city of Fouman caused a wave of outrage among the public across the country...

Iran: Ten female workers poisoned

Ten women who worked in a grains factory in Malekan, East Azerbaijan Province (northwestern Iran) were transferred to hospital due to poisoning...

Iran: Some 300 cars impounded from women who dropped their veils

The Prosecutor of Kerman (southern Iranian province) announced that security forces had impounded over 300 cars due to their drivers' breach of law,...

Iran: AI protests denial of medical treatment to Maryam Akbari

Amnesty International issued a statement on November 3, 2016, objecting denial of medical treatment to Maryam Akbari Monfared imprisoned in Evin Prison. ...

Iran: Kurdish woman transferred to solitary cell

Kurdish woman and student activist, Afsaneh Bayazidi, who had been transferred to the Central Prison of Kerman, was transferred to solitary confinement...

Iran: Another 4 women held in dire conditions in notorious prison

The names of four women was recently verified as being detained in Varamin's notorious Qarchak Prison for women under deplorable conditions. Their cases remain undecided...

A Syrian girl finds her imprisoned brother on the dissection table

A Syrian student confronted the lifeless body of her brother in the dissection class...

Iran: Two women sentenced to death

A young woman in the south Iranian Buvanat Prison, was sentenced to death for killing her husband. The battered woman has two children...

Iran: Protest demands release of prisoner of conscience

Supporters and students of prisoner of conscience Mohammad Ali Taheri staged a protest gathering on Thursday, November 3, 2016, outside the Judiciary's building in Tehran,...

Iran: Major protest rally with women's large participation

On Tuesday, November 1, 2016, some 200 Literacy Movement teachers converged from across the country to take part in a major protest outside the parliament in Tehran...

Italy's Sassari Conference in solidarity with Iranian women's struggle

A conference was held in support of the Iranian opposition's “Justice Seeking Movement” at the University of Sassari, Italy, on October 22, 2016....

Iran: House of great poetess razed to ground

The house where Iran's great poetess, Forough Farrokhzad, used to live in her final years has been razed to ground and replaced with a three-story building...

Iran: Eight women identified among those arrested in protest

More information has come out on the identities of women beaten up and arrested by security forces when they took part in the gathering on October 31 outside the ...

Iran: Nurses discontented over 10 months of unpaid overtime wages

Nurses are forced to work overtime, but their overtime fees have not been paid for between six to ten months...

Iran: Asma Jahangir starts her work as UN SR on human rights in Iran

The new UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran began her work on Tuesday, November 1, 2016...

Iran: Details of woman's arrest divulged by her mother

Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee's mother managed to visit her daughter after being arrested...

Iran: Detained women on hunger strike

Those arrested during the last week's protests to the continued detention of prisoner of conscience Mohammad Ali Taheri ...

Iran: Young woman starved under torture to confess

Ameneh Eassazadeh was released on bail on Friday, October 28, 2016, almost three weeks after she was arrested for ...

Iran: Political prisoners censure arrest of Golrokh Iraee

Three political prisoners condemned the arrest and detention of Ms. Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee and her husband, Arash Sadeghi...

Iran: Women stage rally to save life of prisoner of conscience

A group of advocates of prisoners' rights, and students of Mohammad Ali Taheri, gathered on Sunday, October 30, 2016, ...

Social deputy for the Welfare Organization announced that more than 1.3 million Iranian women heading their households do not enjoy any government support...

Iran: 69 stores selling women's attire sealed in Tehran

Deputy Prosecutor of Tehran declared that 69 clothing stores were sealed in the capital...

Iran: Malekabad girls study in a shed in the middle of desert

Girl students of Malekabad village, in southern Iran, are going to school under horrible conditions...

Iran: Indian athlete boycotts Shooting Championship in Iran

Heena Sidhu, the Olympian from India, boycotted Asian Airgun Shooting Championship to be held in December in Tehran to ...

Iran: Political prisoner's family threatened by regime

Intelligence Ministry agents have threatened the family of political prisoner Zeinab Jalalian on the phone, warning them ...