Iranian Women Threat to National Security

HRW: The Iranian Judiciary is using national security laws to imprison women’s rights activists for peacefully protesting against legally sanctioned discrimination. Instead of persecuting women’s rights activists, Iran’s government should scrap laws that discriminate against women.


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Iran: Babol University

یکشنبه ۲۶ فروردین ) ۱۵ نفر متحصنین دانشگاه بابل،که سه تن از آنها در اعتصاب غذا بودند، با یورش نیروهای امنیتی و درگیری آنها با دانشجویان متحصن ‌که در دانشگاه تنها بودند، ربوده شده و به مکان نامعلومی منتقل شدند

Akhbar rooz:--15 university students have been abducted in Mazandaran, Iran.

In a related News: Executing thousands of female opponents, which is unprecedented anywhere in the world. In a recent demonstration by teachers asking for better and equal pay, some 10,000 demonstrators, mostly women, showed up.

Some 1,000 women teachers were arrested in one fell swoop by the Suppression forces and transferred to various prisons. The head of Islamic Iran's National Prisons Organization recently admitted there were over 100 "independent" prisons around the country, each run for their own use by various so-called security or intelligence organizations. Most are only quasi-official and some definitely "illegal" if such a word can be applied to the Islamic administration of Ahmadi-Nejad in particular and the Mullahs in general, where their very presence has illegal roots and foundation.

Finally, Human Rights
Watch demands release of the detained teachers.

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Hannity and Colmes: Nazanin Afshin-Jam on Plight of Iranian Women

Reprinted from Gateway Pundit

Canadian Model, Actress and Miss World contestant, Nazanin Afshin-Jam, appeared on "Hannity and Colmes" to talk about the jailed Iranian Women's Rights protesters Shadi Sadr and Mahbubeh Abbasgholizadeh.

The two women are being held under extreme conditions in Evin Prison in Tehran after their arrests earlier this month. (3-2007)

This was a very informative video on the plight of women in Iran and other Islamic countries: Watch the video by clicking here.

Nazanin previously worked as an activist to build international awareness on the situation of Nazanin Mahabad Fatehi, who was sentenced to hang for stabbing one of three men who tried to rape her and her niece in Karaj in March 2005.

Nazanin Fatehi was cleared of murder charges earlier this year and was later released from prison thanks in large part to the work of Nazanin Afshin-Jam.

Nazanin even dedicated her song "Someday the Revolution song" -one of the 12 songs on her album -Someday to Nazanin Fatehi and the other oppressed youth of Iran. "Hopefully I will get to send - or better yet hand deliver- the song to her.” said Nazanin Afshin-Jam in an interview.

Previously on Iranian Women's Rights protests:
Iranian Regime Thrashes Women's Rights Protesters in Tehran!
More Images of the Brutal Beating of Iranian Women Protesters
Iranian Women Arrested at Tehran Courthouse Protest
Iranian Officials Break Teeth of Prominent Womens Rights Activist
Iranian Teacher's Protest Continues- Women's Rally Turns Violent!!
Two Women's Rights Defenders Still Held In Tehran
Iranian Women's Rights Activists Placed in Solitary Confinement

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