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Woman flogged as calls grow for Iran to be held to account
Julie Tomlin WVoN co-editor A young Iranian woman has been given 50 lashes as calls heighten for the country’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, to be held to account for human rights abuses when he...
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Iranian deputy: prevent female defendants wearing chadors in court
Summary of story from Radio Free Liberty, September 21, 2011 Iranian parliament deputy Laleh Eftekhari has criticized female defendants who appear in court wearing the compulsory chador, the cloak-like...
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Iranian human rights activist sentenced to 11 years in jail
Summary of story from The Guardian, September 28, 2011 Iranian human rights activist, Narges Mohammadi, who was taken seriously ill after being detained by the authorities, has been sentenced to 11...
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Iranian blogger commits suicide after interrogation
Julie Tomlin WVoN co-editor Human rights organisations have called for an investigation into the suicide of an Iranian activist two months after she was interrogated by security forces. Nahal Sahabi, a...
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Iranian actress sentenced to year in jail and 90 lashes
Summary of story from Yahoo News, October 9, 2011 Actress Marzieh Vafamehr has been sentenced to a year in jail and 90 lashes for her role in a film about the limits imposed on artists in the Islamic...
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Clinton cautions Iran over US withdrawal from Iraq
Summary of story from RFE/RL, October 26, 2011 Hillary Clinton has cautioned Iran not to misinterpret the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq as a sign of decreasing commitment to seeing democracy...
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Iranian opposition challenge Hillary Clinton’s comments
Summary of story from RFE/RL, October 29, 2011 Debate about whether the United States should actively support Iran’s opposition movement appears to have been reignited following recent comments by US...
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Campaign to stop death by stoning in Iran
Summary of story from Ianyanmag, November 7, 2011 A campaign has been launched to put pressure on the Iranian government to stop the practice of stoning people to death. As part of a review of Iran’s...
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Iranian university students fight co-education ban
Summary of story from France24, November 25, 2011 Students at one of the universities in Iran where a co-education ban is in place are fighting to try to get the authorities to go back on their...
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Iranian activists fight proposed changes to polygamy law
Summary of story from Amnesty International, November 30, 2011 Women activists in Iran continue to fight legislation that would further reduce women’s rights in polygamous marriages. Iranian law...
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Campaign to free Iranian lawyer marks human rights day
Julie Tomlin WVoN co-editor Human rights campaigners are calling for the release of lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh who is in prison in Iran because of her work. Sotoudeh was sent to prison for six years last...
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USA calls for sanctions and time for diplomacy over Iran
Summary of story from RFE/RL, December 22, 2011 The US ambassador to the United Nations has called for full implementation of sanctions on Iran at a United Nations (UN) Security Council briefing on...
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New book hails Iranian who saved Jews from the Nazis
Summary of story from BBCNews, December 21, 2011 Thousands of Iranian Jews and their descendants owe their lives to a Muslim diplomat in wartime Paris, according to a new book. In The Lion’s Shadow, by...
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Activist daughter of former Iranian president jailed
Summary of story from The Guardian, January 3, 2012 Faezeh Hashemi, a political activist and former member of the Iranian parliament faces six months in prison for ‘spreading propaganda’. Her lawyer,...
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Two years on: Iranian human rights activist still in prison
Summary of story from Change for Equality, December 31, 2011 Two years have passed since the arrest and imprisonment of Bahareh Hadayat, a women’s rights and student’s rights activist and campaigner...
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Iranian leaders urged to investigate rape of prisoners
Summary of story from Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, January 4, 2012 Mehdi Karrubi, former Iranian parliament speaker and leading figure for the opposition, has called for an investigation into the...
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Mothers of Iran’s democracy campaigners face jail
Summary of story from Radio Free Europe, January 13, 2012 The Mothers of Laleh Park, a group of women whose children were killed or detained during Iran’s 2009 post-election crackdown, have issued the...
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Iranian activist detained
Summary of story from The Green Voice of Freedom, January 18, 2012 An online website says Parastoo Dokouhaki, a blogger, human rights activist and journalist, has been detained by Iranian authorities....
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Iran attempts to curb dissent ahead of March elections
Parastou Dokouhaki Summary of story from Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty, January 19, 2012 Iranian security forces arrested a journalist and blogger Parastou Dokouhaki on January 16 at her home in...
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Iranian women warn Egyptian women not to make same mistakes
Julie Tomlin WVoN co-editor The message of the Youtube video from Iranian women to Egyptian and Tunisian women is clear: don’t let what happened to us happen to you. From the days of jeans-wearing...
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Thousands of Iranian women are training to become female ninjas
Jale Arif WVoN co-editor Thousands of Iranian women are training to become Kunoichi (female ninjas) in a small Ninjutsu club in Iran. The school opened in 1989 and now has 3,500 women mastering the...
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Iran continues persecution of women’s rights activists as elections loom
Laura Bridgestock WVoN co-editor As Iran prepares for parliamentary elections on March 2, women remain hugely underrepresented in the country’s government and continue to face persecution when...
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Women football fans face Iran ban
Deborah Cowan WVoN co-editor Euro 2012 fever has been gripping/boring (delete as appropriate) the continent for nigh on a week now, with daily matches taking place in Poland and the Ukraine. And...
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Women in Iran banned from studying over 70 degree courses
Natasha Wilson WVoN Co-editor Universities in Iran have announced that women will be banned from studying certain degree courses and offered to men only. Under the new policy, 36 universities will...
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Facebook mix-up forced lecturer to flee for life
A journalist’s careless mistake led to an Iranian woman fleeing for her life from state police. Neda Soltani is now living in exile away from her family and the job she loved as an academic. Her life...
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