Women & Youth
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Iran lashes woman in public
A woman has received 100 lashings in the town of Golpayegan, central Iran. State. the punishment on 27 April. Najafali Alyan, the government’s prosecutor in the town, said the lashings were punishment for adultery.
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Brave mothers criticize Khomeini in Iran memorial
A number of brave Iranian mothers of youths who were martyred in the 2009 nationwide uprising against the mullahs’ regime have publicly criticized Khomeini for installing a regime which is murdering Iran’s children by the day. The mothers spoke out at a gathering in Tehran’s Shahriar District last Friday to…
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Growing Up on Death Row: The Death Penalty and Juvenile Offenders in Iran
Amnesty International – Scores of youths in Iran are languishing on death row for crimes committed under the age of 18, said Amnesty International in a new report published today. The report debunks recent attempts by Iran’s authorities to whitewash their continuing violations of children’s rights and deflect criticism of their…
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Waiting to die: the Iranian child inmates facing execution – in pictures
The Guardian, Friday 8th January – In Iran, girls are held criminally accountable by law from the age of nine, and can be sentenced to death by hanging for crimes such as murder, drug trafficking and armed robbery. Sadegh Souri has photographed girls in the harsh conditions of juvenile detention…
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Iran: 300 acid attacks in one year
Abolfazl Abu-Torabi, member of the Legal and Judiciary Commission in mullahs’parliament, referred to 300 cases of acid attacks in one year and said, “There have been no declines in the punishment of acid attacks.” “The punishment of acid attacks, if it is intended to inflict a blow to the state…
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Berlin – Grand gathering on occasion of International Women’s Day
On Saturday, March 7, the participants in a grand gathering in Berlin on the occasion of International Women’s Day titled “For Tolerance and Equality against Fundamentalism and Misogyny” underscored that the advancement of the ideal of equality in the world today has come face-to-face with a formidable barrier, the Islamic…
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Iran: Acid attacks continue, a 24-year-old woman in Isfahan targeted
On Friday night, October 24, the criminal gangs affiliated with the clerical regime attacked a 24-year-old woman and in an anti-human atrocity splashed acid on her face. This crime was committed at 8:10 pm at the 3-way intersection of Malek Shahr of Esfahan by three criminals riding motorcycles who had…
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Iran: Young man lashed in public for his online activities
Photo: A man being lashed in public in Iran before being hanged, August 6, 2014. Iranian authorities in southern city of Bandar Abbas lashed a man in public in the city’s main square for his online activities in social networks. The head of the Iranian regime’s judiciary in the province…