Women & Youth
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Young Woman Taken to Psychiatry Hospital after being Beaten by Security Forces for Improper Veiling
23 October 2023 – Roya Zakeri,a young woman from Tabriz, was brutalized by security forces on Sunday, October 15, 2023, for not covering her hair. A viral video clip of Ms. Zakeri showed her sitting on the ground and crying out slogans against the mullahs’ supreme leader, Ali Khamenei. For this…
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2 Female Journalists Sentenced to Total of 25 Years in Prison
23 October 2023 – Journalists Niloufar Hamedi and Elaheh Mohammadi have been imprisoned for more than one year for reporting the truth behind the killing in custody of Mahsa Amini. They spent some months in the notorious Qarchak Prison and were relocated to Evin Prison on May 1, 2023. Niloufar Hamedi was sentenced to…
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Iran: Gas Attacks on Girls’ School Across the Country
7th March 2023 – In a series of attacks, the regime has been making girls’ schools across Iran the targets of Gas attacks. What started in November 2022, has now turned into frequent, almost daily, attacks on young girls. There are reports of hundreds of schools being targeted and several…
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Iran Removed from UN Women’s Rights Commission
28th December 2022 – In a historic vote, members of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) voted to remove Iran from this group. The landmark decision was made after heated debates since it was unprecedented for the UN to expel a member state from its commissions. The Commission…
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Iran: Women Detainees Flogged and Given Prison Sentences
27th December 2022 – The following report is a collection of news about the flogging and prison sentences handed down for some women arrested during the 2022 nationwide uprisings in Iran. – Pari Aghaii, the accountant of a non-profit school, was sentenced to 8 years in prison on the…
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Iran: Killing of Young Children by Security Forces
27th December 2022 – Since the start of the current uprising, which began on the 16th September 2022 and recently passed the 100-day mark, at least 65 children under the age of 18 have been killed by the regime’s security forces and ‘morality police’. Some had participated in the protests…
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Iran: Sit-Ins and Strikes Across Different Sectors
28th November 2022 – As protests and uprisings continue across Iran, members of different sectors of Iran’s society have gone of strike with various demands of their own. These include university students, industry workers and drivers. These coordinated strikes across the country show that people are becoming more organised to…
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Iran: Baluch Woman Faces Death Penalty
A young Baluch woman might face death if proven that she led the riots in Zahedan. Faezeh Barahuii, 24, studied at the Azad University of Zahedan. The authorities accuse her of leading the riots.
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Teachers’ Nationwide Protests in Iran
15 Oct 2021 – Teachers’ nationwide protests took place in Iran in September and October. The coordinated and nationwide demonstrations spread to 40 cities and 20 provinces by September 25 when the schools reopened in Iran. Thousands of teachers cried out their demands against Iran’s oppressive rulers on most days…
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Iran: Mothers of Martyrs Protest in Tehran
Mothers of the martyrs of the November 2019 uprising held a picket line at Tehran’s Azadi Square to express their solidarity with the people of Khuzestan, especially with the mothers who have lost their children in the recent protests over water shortage in that province. They chanted, “From Tehran to…