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Source: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) October 20, 2010 The head of Iran’s Research and Planning Organization of Higher Studies has said that the number of male and female students in the Islamic republic is now equal. Massoud Hadian Dehkordi has said that there are currently 3,790,859 students in the country, of which he said [...]
Source: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) October 20, 2010 The new police chief of the Iranian city of Esfahan says it is a crime for women to cycle or roller-skate in public, RFE/RL’s Radio Farda reports. The two were among a range of women’s activities deemed criminal by Hassan Karami in an announcement on October [...]
Source: Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) September 20, 2010 Blogger kindkill3r contemplates the way women are portrayed on Iranian state television under hard-liner control. Women’s rights activists have long criticized state television for presenting an unrealistic and clichéd image of Iranian women and promoting a strictly traditional role for women. Women on Iran’s state programs [...]
Source: Radio Zamaneh August 22, 2010 Iranian opposition leader, Zahra Rahnavard urged Iran’s Islamic Parliament to scrap the recent controversial family protection law from its agenda. Kaleme website reports that Rahnavard has called on the parliament to leave the evaluation of this bill of law to a “group of expert and progressive men and women.” [...]
August 13, 2010 Deutsche Übersetzung auf Julias Blog lesen Report Originally Published in Persian by Rooz Online | August 12, 2010 Translation SIAVOSH JALILI for Persian2English According to Javid Kian, the lawyer for 25 year old Maryam Ghorbanzadeh, in a letter to Judiciary intelligence and security, judicial officials (most notably Saeed Mortazavi) decided that the case [...]
August 14, 2010 Deutsche Übersetzung auf Julias Blog lesen Originally Published in Persian by ROOZ ONLINE | August 12, 2010 Translation SIAVOSH JALILI for Persian2English In an interview with Rooz Online, Javid Kian, the lawyer for the four women who received stoning sentences, has asked international organizations to act in order to save the lives [...]
August 9, 2010 Planet Iran/Iran Press News Click here for Persian text Planet Iran’s report on temporary marriages (Seeqeh) in Iran, was met with many and varied reactions, some people who did not find it so strange and others who refused to believe it. In today’s Iran however, truth is often stranger than fiction. So [...]
EXCLUSIVE: Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani accuses authorities in Tehran of lying about charges in attempt to execute her in secret By Saeed Kamali Dehghan Source: Guardian August 6, 2010 n an exclusive interview with the Guardian, the woman whose sentence of death by stoning triggered an international outcry has accused the Iranian authorities of lying about [...]
Source: The Green Voice of Freedom (GVF) August 2, 2010 Civil activist Hengameh Solouki has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison. She was arrested on 27 December during the Ashura protests which were quickly turned violent by Iran’s security forces. According to the RAHANA news agency, after imprisonment in ward 209 [...]
