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Sunday, 22 June 2008 |
 Reuters: An Iranian women's rights activist has been sentenced to five years in prison on security-related charges, her lawyer said on Saturday. |
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Friday, 20 June 2008 |
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 BBC: A female student in the Iranian city of Zanjan who alleged she was sexually harassed by a senior male lecturer - triggering a massive demonstration by her fellow students - has herself been arrested.
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Tuesday, 17 June 2008 |
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 BBC: Police in Iran have begun a new campaign against Western-style clothing and hairstyles.
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Tuesday, 17 June 2008 |
 AP: Police closed dozens of clothing stores and hairdressers and stopped cars and pedestrians in a crackdown on women who do not abide by Iran's strict Islamic dress code and men wearing fashions seen as too Western, Iranian media reported Monday. |
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Monday, 16 June 2008 |
 Reuters: Iranian police have launched a more extensive crackdown on "social corruption" such as women flouting Islamic dress codes, the Farhang-e Ashti newspaper reported on Monday. |
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Monday, 02 June 2008 |
 Reuters: A court has sentenced a male activist for greater female rights in Iran to one year in prison, his lawyer and a fellow campaigner said on Monday. |
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Monday, 26 May 2008 |
 AFP: A male defender of the feminist cause in Iran has been sentenced to a year in prison, the moderate Kargozaran newspaper reported on Monday without providing further details. |
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Friday, 09 May 2008 |
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 Iran Focus: London, May 09 - The international press freedoms watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) urged Iranian authorities earlier this week to end a recent spate of systematic attacks against women’s rights publications.
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Saturday, 03 May 2008 |
 AFP: Iran has handed down a suspended jail sentence to an award-winning women's rights activist found guilty of seeking to harm national security, press reports said on Saturday. |
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Wednesday, 30 April 2008 |
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Reuters: Iranian police will launch a crackdown next month on small companies which fail to enforce strict religious dress codes, Mehr News Agency reported on Wednesday. |
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Tuesday, 22 April 2008 |
 Reuters: Three Iranian women's rights campaigners have received suspended lashing and jail sentences for taking part in a rally, a fellow activist said on Tuesday. |
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Thursday, 17 April 2008 |
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AFP: Iranian police will confront women in private offices, or even socialising in cafes, whose dress is deemed improper, as part of a continued morality crackdown, Tehran's police chief said on Thursday. |
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Saturday, 12 April 2008 |
 AFP: Hundreds of Iranian civil rights activists have signed an open letter calling for the release of a women's rights advocate arrested for "acting against national security", reports said on Saturday. |
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Thursday, 10 April 2008 |
 AKI: A top Shia cleric in Iran has said that unveiled women are a serious danger to Iranian society as they cause men to be "transformed into beasts". |
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Saturday, 15 March 2008 |
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The Observer: A headscarf pushed back to show off a new haircut, a tight jacket worn over traditional dress, expensive make-up ... the challenge to the hardline clerics is taking place in bars and cafes, not in the polling booth, as the youth of Tehran push the boundaries of self-expression. |
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Saturday, 15 March 2008 |
 The Times: As darkness falls the floodlit domes and minarets of the great Jamkaran mosque begin to glow in translucent greens and turquoise. |
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Thursday, 13 March 2008 |
 ABC News: She is a real Iranian fighter, fierce and focused on taking down an opponent. At 20 years old, tae kwon do champion Sara Khoshjamal is taking her fight to Beijing. This summer she'll travel from her home on the outskirts of Tehran to the heights of the Olympic stage. |
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Thursday, 28 February 2008 |
 Iran Focus: London, Feb. 28 – A prominent international human rights organisation accused Iran on Thursday of “detaining” and “harassing” activists “working to defend women’s rights”. |
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Sunday, 24 February 2008 |
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Reuters: Wearing a brightly colored headscarf and high-heeled boots, the woman refused to be bundled into the police van without a fight. |
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Monday, 18 February 2008 |
 AKI: A man known as Sharif has reportedly stoned his fourteen-year-old daughter to death in southeastern Iran because for allegedly having a relationship with a man. |
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Saturday, 16 February 2008 |
 Reuters: Iranian police have detained two women's rights campaigners and accused them of spreading propaganda against the Islamic state, a fellow activist said on Saturday. |
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Sunday, 10 February 2008 |
 RFE/RL: Who’s afraid of girls? The Iranian government, it seems. Recent years have seen a dramatic rise in the number of Iranian girls enrolling in universities and other institutions of higher education. While many governments would see this as a blessing worth boasting about, that's not the case in Iran. |
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Friday, 08 February 2008 |
 Iran Focus: London, Feb. 08 – The international human rights group Amnesty International warned on Thursday that two sisters, Zohreh and Azar Kabiri-niat, were facing execution by stoning in Iran for adultery. |
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Tuesday, 05 February 2008 |
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Daily Telegraph: Two Iranian sisters convicted of adultery face being stoned to death after the supreme court upheld death sentences against them, Iranian media have reported. |
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Monday, 04 February 2008 |
 AFP: Two Iranian sisters convicted of adultery face being stoned to death after the supreme court upheld the death sentences against them, the Etemad newspaper Monday quoted their lawyer as saying. |
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Wednesday, 30 January 2008 |
 AKI: Iran's most important women's magazine, Zanan, (Women) has been forced to close after 16 years of publication, after being accused of painting a "dark picture" of Iran. |
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Friday, 25 January 2008 |
 AKI: Iranian authorities are looking at new restrictions that will create different school textbooks for boys and girls. |
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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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