Middle East news
Iran shows its ‘humanitarian’ side with the hanging of a boy
Sept 2011: Drewery Dyke, Amnesty Intl - “On one hand, the hikers have been released... On the other, there has been a hanging of a minor, which is an act that flies in the face of international law."
International Day of Peace in Iran - Americans Freed but Teenager Executed
Sept 2011: The release of the US hikers was clearly designed to improve the president's standing... but hours earlier the regime blatantly broke international law by executing a teenager.
Iran Says Female Defendants Should Not Wear Chador In Court
Sept 2011: Iranian parliament deputy said the "sanctity of the chador would be blemished" if such women wear it, and the sight of women thus attired would have a 'negative impact on society'....
Women’s Rights Activist Fereshteh Shirazi
Sept 2011: Fereshteh Shirazi, women’s rights activist and member of the One Million Signatures Campaign, was denied face-to-face prison visits and telephone contact with her family only a week after her arrest.
The Deterioration of Women's Rights in Iraq
Sept 2011: Hanaa Edwar has been working within the women’s rights movement in Iraq, in collaboration with Kvinna till Kvinna, for a long time. She is also the founder of Iraqi Women’s Network....
1. Iran: Execution of Women & Children - Punishable Crimes
October 2011: Safeworld Report by Joanne Michele - Adultery, lesbianism and heresy can all be punished by execution under Iranian law. There are no female judges.
Iranian Minister calls for gender segregation in universities
Sept 2011: Iran’s Assembly of Experts calls on officials to institute gender segregation in Iranian universities...
2. Iran: Execution of Women & Children - Methods of Execution
October 2011: Safeworld Report by Joanne Michele - Public hangings are often carried out using large mobile construction cranes....
IRAN: Women’s rights activist badly beaten by plainclothes agents.
Sept 2011: According to reliable reports from Tabriz, women’s rights activist Faranak Farid was severely beaten by plainclothes agents at the time of her arrest...
3. Iran: Execution of Women
October 2011: Safeworld Report by Joanne Michele - Dutch Iranian, Zahra Bahrami, was hanged without warning on 29th January 2011, before Dutch lawyers could get access to her...
4. Iran: Execution of Children
October 2011: Safeworld Report by Joanne Michele - There are 100 juveniles on death row in Iran. In September 2011, a teenager was hanged in a public execution...
Bahraini women: the cost of expressing views
Sept 2011: Bahrain center for Human Rights strongly condemns the ongoing crackdown against the peaceful protesters in Bahrain, specially the repression and detention of a great number of Bahraini women...