Women's rights
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Saba Kord Afshari's 24-year prison sentence confirmed for walking without a hijab
The Supreme Court has requested a retrial for Saba Kord Afshari, who was sentenced to 24 years in prison for protesting against compulsory hijab.
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Iran News
Video of young woman being beaten in Abadan; security guard sent to prison
Following the release of a video of a woman in Abadan with a "bloody face" being pushed to the ground by two other women...
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Iran News
20 days after the end of Nasrin Sotoudeh's hunger strike, the Islamic Republic has still not allowed her health condition to be examined.
The husband of Nasrin Sotoudeh, a lawyer imprisoned in Iran, says that although it has been twenty days since Ms. Sotoudeh was transferred back to prison…
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Iran News
Child marriage: 30,000 girls under the age of 14 marry annually in the country
Masoumeh Ebtekar, Vice President for Women and Family Affairs, stated in a webinar on children's rights in the Iranian legal system that...
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World events
Afghan Policewoman: Taliban Gouged Out My Eyes with the Help of My Father
Afghan media has reported the painful fate of a female police officer named “Khatereh” who served in Ghazni province. She…
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Iran News
Stories of rape in Iran; you have to be a woman to know…
Rough hands are stretched over their bodies and breaths are drawn into their ears. Hearts are beating not from pleasure, but from fear…
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Iran News
Lawyer for Romina Ashrafi's mother: In this case, legal punishment should not be sufficient
Ebrahim Nikdelmoghaddam, the lawyer for the mother of Romina Ashrafi, a 13-year-old girl who was murdered by her father, says the killer acted with an investigation…
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Iran News
“80 percent of sexual assault cases in Iran go unreported”
Saeed Madani, a sociologist, emphasized that 80 percent of sexual assault cases in Iran are not reported, saying: "Most statistics...
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