Tag: Oppression on Women

On Sunday, October 13th, human rights organizations inside Iran released a statement signed by 17 female political prisoners condemning the regime’s “oppression of women, and its inhumane and unjust behavior

Since its inception, the Khomeiniist regime has repeatedly resorted to fraudulent displays of “reform” away from, and “relaxation” of, its Islamist core values when confronted with pressure from abroad

Iran has been notoriously renowned as a misogynistic state under the outdated laws of the medieval regime. For four decades, Iranian women have been struggling for fundamental rights enjoyed by women in other countries

The heartbreaking death of Sahar Khodayari dubbed as Blue Girl, who self-immolated after facing a six-month jail term for attending a soccer match

The police commander in Iran’s Alborz province has told the public he will confront people with bad hijab even within the territory of apartment complexes

Iran has arrested an Instagram star famed for drastically altering her appearance to look like U.S. actress Angelina Jolie, the Tasnim news agency has reported

A female gynecologist who disregarded Iran’s compulsory hijab rules was sentenced to seeing patients and delivering babies free of charge for one year, according to Radio Farda

Iranian authorities have arrested three family members of Masih Alinejad, a prominent US-based Iranian journalist and activist as retribution for her women’s rights activism, Amnesty International revealed today

A woman in Iran who sat on a police car in the street as a sign of protest to criticism of her hijab was arrested

The crackdown on the people of Iran continues. Iranians over the past few decades have found themselves with fewer and fewer rights and freedoms and the regime is systematically ordering further crackdowns

In a letter written from Tehran’s Evin prison, four inmates have lambasted the Islamic Republic’s establishment for persecuting independent journalists, political and civil rights activists accusing them of security-related crimes and issuing harsh verdicts