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Thursday, 03 January 2008 |
 UPI: The government of Norway lashed out at Iran Wednesday for executing a woman convicted of killing her husband. |
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Friday, 21 December 2007 |
 AKI: A top Muslim cleric in Iran, Hojatolislam Gholam Reza Hassani said on Wednesday that women in Iran who do not wear the hijab or Muslim headscarf, should die. |
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Thursday, 20 December 2007 |
 AKI: The vice president of the Iranian Olympic Committee, Abdolreza Savar, has announced new rules to fight what he defines as the sport's "subjugation to western customs and practices" |
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Monday, 17 December 2007 |
 AFP: Iran has charged two women's rights activists with taking part in "terrorist" actions and belonging to a militant Kurdish separatist group, an investigating judge said on Sunday. |
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Thursday, 06 December 2007 |
 AFP: Iran plans to set up police stations run by women officers in the Islamic republic's capital to deal only with offences committed by women, the Tehran Emrouz newspaper reported on Thursday. |
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Sunday, 02 December 2007 |
 The Observer: Nothing about Zahra Baniyaghoub's life suggested she would have wanted to end it. With a flourishing career as a doctor and a stable relationship with a man she loved, she seemed to have everything to live for. |
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Saturday, 01 December 2007 |
 Reuters: Iranian police will crack down on women in Tehran flouting Islamic dress codes with winter fashions deemed immodest, such as tight trousers tucked into long boots, an officer was quoted as saying on Saturday. |
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Wednesday, 21 November 2007 |
 AFP: Iran has arrested a journalist and women's rights activist for writing articles on "discriminatory laws" for women in the Islamic republic, a press report said on Tuesday.
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Monday, 12 November 2007 |
 AFP: Iranian police have unveiled a list of "vices" -- including makeup, un-Islamic dress and decadent movies -- being targeted in an ongoing moral crackdown, a conservative newspaper reported on Monday. |
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Saturday, 10 November 2007 |
 BBC: Seven human rights groups including Amnesty International have urged Iran to set aside a prison sentence for women's rights activist Delaram Ali.
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Monday, 22 October 2007 |
 AFP: Iran's police are to keep up their moral crackdown through the winter months, confronting couples whose behaviour in public is deemed to be inappropriate, officials said on Sunday. |
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Monday, 01 October 2007 |
 AFP: A group of prominent MPs have called for the Italian clothing retailer Benetton to quit Iran, saying its fashions are a bad influence on female consumers, newspapers said on Monday. |
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Monday, 10 September 2007 |
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AFP: Iran is pressing on with one of its toughest moral crackdowns in years, warning tens of thousands of women over slack dress, targeting "immoral" cafes and seizing illegal satellite receivers, local media reported on Monday. |
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Tuesday, 24 July 2007 |
 Iran Focus: London, Jul. 24 – The following is shocking footage of a public hanging of a woman and two men in Iran, as shown on the Iranian opposition satellite channel Simay-e Azadi. |
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Monday, 23 July 2007 |
 AFP: Iran on Monday launched a new wave of a moral crackdown against women who "dress like models" and men whose hairstyles are deemed unIslamic, police said. |
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Sunday, 22 July 2007 |
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AFP: Iran is to launch a new crackdown Monday on slack dressing that targets both men and women whose clothing and haircuts are deemed to be unIslamic, police said. |
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Sunday, 15 July 2007 |
 Reuters: Iranian police will intensify a crackdown on women flouting Islamic dress code, a police official told a newspaper on Sunday, in the first reinforcement of regular summertime campaigns. |
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Sunday, 15 July 2007 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 15 – Iranian authorities hanged a woman in public in the north-western province of East Azerbaijan, state media reported on Sunday. |
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Wednesday, 04 July 2007 |
 Reuters: Activists should not try to change Islamic laws relating to women's rights, Iran's supreme leader said on Wednesday, two days after one campaigner was reportedly sentenced to 34 months in jail and ten lashes. |
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Tuesday, 03 July 2007 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 03 – Iran’s judiciary has sentenced a women’s right activist to lashes and prison time for taking part in an anti-government protest last year, state media reported. |
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Tuesday, 12 June 2007 |
 Iran Focus: London, Jun. 12 - The U.S. State Department accused Iran on Tuesday of being a major hub of human trafficking. |
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Sunday, 03 June 2007 |
 Reuters: Iran's interior minister faced criticism from women activists on Saturday after advocating the practice of temporary marriage as a way to meet the needs of young people in the Islamic state, which bans extramarital sex. |
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Wednesday, 16 May 2007 |
 Washington Times: Growing up female in Iran, Layla did not know happiness. At age 13, her family sold her to a man who forced her into prostitution. At 18, she was arrested and sentenced to death for adultery, while her pimp only paid a fine. |
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Monday, 14 May 2007 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, May 14 – An official at Tehran’s governorate applauded the current nationwide crackdown on women who violate Iran’s strict Islamic dress code but said the initiative did not go far enough. |
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Sunday, 13 May 2007 |
 AFP: Iranian police have prevented 50 women from boarding flights in their ongoing crackdown on dress styles deemed to be out of line with Islamic dress rules, officials said on Sunday.
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Wednesday, 09 May 2007 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, May 09 – The following are photos of a government crackdown on violators of Iran’s strict Islamic dress code. The nationwide clampdown began in April.
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Tuesday, 08 May 2007 |
 AFP: Iran's conservative government is encouraging doctors and nurses to treat patients only of the same gender in a bid to bring healthcare in line with its Islamic laws, press reports said on Tuesday.
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Friday, 04 May 2007 |
 New York Times: Only days after Iran’s annual crackdown on immodest dress began in mid-April, with teams of police officers stopping women in major squares and subway stations to warn them about their attire, the security authorities came under fire. |
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Monday, 30 April 2007 |
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AFP: Iran on Monday warned tourists and other foreigners visiting the country to obey its Islamic dress code in line with a nationwide crackdown against slack dressing, the ISNA news agency reported. |
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Saturday, 28 April 2007 |
 AP: Iranian police shoved and kicked them, loaded them into a curtained minibus and drove them away. Hours later, at the gates of Evin prison, they were blindfolded and forced to wear all-enveloping chadors, and then were interrogated through the night. |
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