Source: Reporters and Human Rights Activists of Iran (RAHANA)
March 9, 2010
Simin Behbahani was prevented from leaving for France for International Women’s Day ceremonies.
RAHANA – “Paris municipality had invited me for March 8 and I had prepared a text about feminism and a poem about women which I was going to read at the ceremony and [...]
Source: The Green Voice of Freedom (GVF)
March 10, 2010
The physical condition of Evin prisoners Mahdieh Golroo, Pakhshan Azizi and Zahra Jabbari have been reported as dire.
According to this report, the lack of medical care in their ward has become very problematic, such that Kurdish prisoner Pakhshan Azizi has been suffering from jaw and gum infection [...]
Source: Reporters and Human Rights Activists of Iran (RAHANA)
March 6, 2010
The 15th branch of the Revolutionary Court issued its verdicts for Khadijeh Moghaddam and her husband, Dr. Khosro-Shahi.
RAHANA – The 15th branch of the Revolutionary Court acquitted Khadijeh Moghaddam on 2 counts of propaganda activity against the regime and disobeying police order, but found her [...]
Source: Reporters and Human Rights Activists of Iran (RAHANA)
March 6, 2010
Parisa Kakaee is a women’s and human rights activist and a member the Committee of Human Rights Reporters. She was arrested on November 3, 2009 and detained for a month and a half.
The following is an article written by Parisa Kakaee.
Mr. Interrogator! Please read it! [...]
By Pamela Philipose, Womens Feature Service
Source: News Blaze
March 2, 2010
Fatemeh Simin Motamed-Arya, 49, is one of Iran’s best-known and loved actresses. Starting with theatre, she quickly adapted to Iran’s vibrant cinema scene and today has over 40 films to her credit. But what’s even more interesting about Motamed-Arya is her political activism. She is an [...]
By Benjamin Joffe-Walt
Source: The Media Line
March 7, 2010
International Women’s Rights Day campaign launched two months after beatings of the ‘Mourning Mothers’
Iranian women’s activists have launched a campaign for gender equality to mark International Women’s Rights Day.
The campaign, Call for Solidarity: Freedom and Gender Equality in Iran, targets gender-based discrimination against women and what campaigners describe [...]
Source: Reporters and Human Rights Activists of Iran (RAHANA)
3 March , 2010
Mahboobeh Karami, a member of the 1 Million Signatures Campain, was arrested at her home last night.
RAHANA – Mahboobeh Karami was arrested last night at her home by intelligence agents who had a warrant for her arrest. The agents also seized a number of [...]
By Elahe Amani
Source: Womens News Network (WNN)
March 3, 2010
Today on a daily basis, personal memoirs of ongoing encounters of dictatorship and resistance in Iran are being written in print and in cyberspace by countless Iranian civil rights activists, scholars and women human rights defenders.
In the process of finding a new transitional global identity, Iran state [...]
By Elham Gheytanchi
Source: Ms. Magazine
Winter 2010
Despite a February 15th United Nations review of its human-rights practices, Iran’s government has not curbed its censorship and repression of women’s rights activists. The morning after the review was held, Nasrin Sotoudeh, a prominent Iranian feminist lawyer, was detained by the Iranian government. Her alleged crime is “to have [...]
Source: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL)
March 02, 2010
Iranian activist Shadi Sadr
WASHINGTON — Two Afghans and an Iranian are among this year’s winners of the U.S. government’s International Women of Courage Award.
Shukria Asil, an Afghan provincial council member, Shafiqa Quraishi of the Afghan Interior Ministry, and Iranian women’s rights activist Shadi Sadr were among the 10 [...]
