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Friday, 27 April 2007 |
 BBC: Thousands of Iranian women have been cautioned over their poor Islamic dress this week and several hundred arrested in the capital Tehran in the most fierce crackdown on what's known as "bad hijab" for more than a decade. |
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Friday, 27 April 2007 |
 AKI: One week after police started enforcing strict new Islamic dress code rules, Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Friday that his opponents were manipulating the moralization campaign so as to create discontent. |
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Friday, 27 April 2007 |
 AKI: A court in Tehran issued on Tuesday a suspended jail sentence for two women's rights activists who had taken part in a rally last June in favour of legislation changes promoting equal opportunities for women. |
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Friday, 27 April 2007 |
 AKI: Some 150,000 women have been detained in Iran for violating strict new Islamic dress code rules, the country's top police officer has announced. |
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Tuesday, 24 April 2007 |
 AFP: The police bus screeches to a halt at a Tehran square packed with traffic. The officers leap out and begin spot checks on passing pedestrians and cars. |
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Tuesday, 24 April 2007 |
 AP: With the arrival of spring, Iranian police have launched a crackdown against women accused of not covering up enough, arresting nearly 300 women, some for wearing too tight an overcoat or letting too much hair peek out from under their veil, authorities said Monday. |
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Monday, 23 April 2007 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Apr. 23 – Two men and a woman were flogged by authorities in the town of Ashkaneh, north-eastern Iran, state media reported on Monday. |
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Monday, 23 April 2007 |
 Reuters: Iranian police have launched a crackdown on women's dress before the summer season when soaring temperatures typically tempt many to flout the strict Islamic dress code, witnesses and Iranian state media said on Sunday. |
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Tuesday, 10 April 2007 |
 Iran Focus: London, Apr. 10 – The United Nations Human Rights Council’s special rapporteur on violence against women and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s special representative on the situation of human rights defenders expressed deep concern about the arrests of women's rights defenders in Iran, according to a statement posted on the website of the United Nations Office at Geneva on Tuesday. |
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Monday, 09 April 2007 |
 The Sun: Freed British hostage Faye Turney told last night how she feared she was being measured for her coffin by her evil Iranian captors. |
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Friday, 06 April 2007 |
 AFP: Iran used the only woman among 15 captured British naval personnel as a "propaganda tool", keeping her isolated and telling her she was the only one being held, the group said Friday. |
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Wednesday, 28 March 2007 |
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Bloomberg: A female U.K. sailor who was among a group of Britons seized by Iranian forces in the Persian Gulf was shown on Iranian television today. |
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Wednesday, 28 March 2007 |
 Iran Focus: London, Mar. 28 – The following are screen grabs of British sailor Faye Turney on Iranian state television. Turney, 26, was arrested at gunpoint by Iranian Revolutionary Guards along with 14 other Royal Marines and Navy personnel on the Iran-Iraq waterway on Friday. Despite repeated pleas by London, Iranian authorities have refused to release the group.
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Thursday, 08 March 2007 |
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AKI: All but three of the 33 Iranian women's rights activists jailed on Sunday were freed Wednesday night, on the eve of International Women's Day, in exchange for a pledge not to demonstrate on 8 March. Nevertheless, many of them and other women's rights activists said they would protest in front of parliament in Tehran on Thursday afternoon. |
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Thursday, 08 March 2007 |
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Reuters: Iranian police clashed on Thursday with scores of rights activists who gathered in front of parliament to celebrate International Women's Day, one of the activists said. |
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Thursday, 08 March 2007 |
 BBC News: In the days before International Women's Day, 33 women were arrested in Tehran for peacefully protesting outside a court building. Thirty of them were subsequently released, but warned not to mark the day with protests. |
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Monday, 20 November 2006 |
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The Guardian: Religious fundamentalists in Iran are demanding separate university classes for men and women in a drive to impose puritanical Islamic values on the country's campuses. |
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Saturday, 21 October 2006 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Oct. 21 – Girls as young as nine are running away from their homes and living on the streets in Iran, according to a classified report issued by the Ministry of Education. |
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Wednesday, 04 October 2006 |
 The Guardian: She was the speed queen of the racetrack who became a feminist icon after triumphing over an all-male field to become Iran's national car rally champion. But now the high-octane driving career of Laleh Seddigh has juddered to a halt, with a ban from participating at a race by the country's motor racing authorities. |
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Tuesday, 19 September 2006 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 19 – Hundreds of Iranian women gathered outside the offices of the judiciary in Tehran on Tuesday in protest to the impending execution of a female prisoner, dissidents have told Iran Focus.
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Tuesday, 19 September 2006 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Sep. 19 – Iran’s Ministry of Education has issued a decree banning all male teachers from teaching in all-girls schools, a top ministry official announced earlier this week.
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Monday, 28 August 2006 |
 TIME: When Behnaz Mohsenian, 29, started English lessons at Tehran's Najdad Institute this spring, the 15 men and women in her class studied grammar sitting in mixed circles. Last month the language school split the group by gender, with men and women meeting on different days. Now plans are under way to move the women's classes to a separate building, to eliminate altogether the possibility of illicit mingling. |
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Saturday, 29 July 2006 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 29 – Iran will soon launch new women’s only parks in the holy city of Qom, south of Tehran. |
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Thursday, 27 July 2006 |
 Iran Focus: London, Jul. 27 – A young woman is at imminent risk of execution by stoning for adultery, according to the international human rights group Amnesty International. |
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Tuesday, 25 July 2006 |
 AKI: An Iranian woman convicted of killing her husband and of having extramarital sex has been sentenced to death by stoning. The sentence of Ashraf Kalhori could be carried out in the coming weeks, her lawyer said. |
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Thursday, 13 July 2006 |
 The Guardian: They are unlikely to grace any catwalk or adorn the figures of supermodels, but the latest in Islamic fashions got top billing from Iran's religious authorities yesterday in an exhibition aimed at promoting female modesty and countering the influence of western clothing.
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Saturday, 08 July 2006 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jul. 08 – An Iranian woman has been sentenced to death by stoning, according to a Kurdish human rights group.
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Friday, 16 June 2006 |
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Iran Focus: London, Jun. 16 – The international human rights groups Amnesty International condemned a crackdown by Iran’s State Security Forces (SSF) on a peaceful demonstration earlier this week by women in Tehran. |
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Tuesday, 13 June 2006 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jun. 13 – At least 400 people were arrested during a peaceful anti-government demonstration by women in Tehran on Monday, according to a statement emailed to Iran Focus by one of the women’s groups that had originally sponsored the protest. |
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Tuesday, 13 June 2006 |
 Iran Focus: Tehran, Iran, Jun. 13 – State Security Forces (SSF) cracked down on a peaceful demonstration by thousands of Iranian women in Tehran. |
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