History of Movement
Iranian women take to the streets to protest hijab laws
The protests come as officials and businesses crackdown on Iranian women who fail to wear hijab. By JERUSALEM POST STAFF A number of Iranian women removed their hijabs in public on Tuesday …
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Zar Amir-Ebrahimi wins Cannes film festival but her heart remains in Iran
By Sophie Baron On Saturday, 28 May 2022, Zar Amir-Ebrahimi made history as the first Iranian to win Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival. This was a momentous triumph …
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The real face of revolution
By Manda Zand Ervin Source: American Thinker I fled from the aftermath of the same kind of “revolution” as that of Antifa in my motherland, Iran. They marched, looted, set …
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‘In Iran there are no differences between fundamentalists and reformists’
Source: France24 By:Marc Perelman Shaparak Shajarizadeh is an Iranian activist and co-author of “Freedom is not a crime”. She relates how she got “fed up with living a lie” and …
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An Iranian Women’s Rights Advocate’s Life Hanging in the Balance
By AIW Staff Narges Mohammadi, one of Iran’s most well-known political prisoners, fears she may soon be killed. After surviving a brutal assault in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison on December …
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Beyond the Veil: Discrimination against women in Iran
Source: Department of Justice
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120 years of struggle for dignity
In the late 1800’s Iranian women were the main force behind the constitutional movement and the subsequent revolution. The Qajar dynasty’s kings (1799 – 1925) sat idly by and allowed …
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120 YEARS OF STRUGGLE FOR HUMAN DIGNITY
Society for the Freedom of Women and Secret Society of Women were the first to be formed in 1907 followed by many others. They all played an active part …
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Facing prison sentence for removing my Hijab
Source: BBC Shaparak Shajarizadeh removed her headscarf in protest against the compulsory hijab rule in Iran and was forced to flee the country. Since the Iranian revolution in 1979, …
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