Category Archive: Articles
Instant verbal divorce rips families apart in Iran’s Kurdish region
Leila Alikarami July 2, 2018 Almonitor Rozhan thought that she was in a happy and loving marriage — until her husband divorced her through an archaic Islamic practice that she was scarcely aware of. Rozhan, 30, lived with her husband, Shaho, 41, and their two small children in Mariwan, a border town in the […]
AMEWS Letter on Arrests of Iranian Women Activists
July 1, 2018 The Human Rights Task Force of the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies (AMEWS), an affiliate of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA), stands in solidarity with Iranian women political prisoners and all those indicted for opposing the compulsory hijab, now known collectively as ‘Girls of Revolution Street.’ Among them are well known human rights activists including Vida Movahed, […]
Almonitor: Iran-Iraq War continues to claim lives
Leila Alikarami April 4, 2018 Mansur Moradi began panicking as blood poured from both his legs after an unexpected explosion. Stranded in a minefield in western Iran, any movement he made could trigger yet another blast. The mountainous region is covered with millions of anti-personnel landmines laid during the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq War. Ultimately, the 36-year-old survived, […]
Rights denied – Rouhani’s promise to Iran’s minorities proves empty, new report
PRESS RELEASES | 13 MAR 2018 Despite some limited gestures of conciliation since the election of Hassan Rouhani in 2013, Iran’s ethnic and religious minorities are vilified, arrested and even executed on account of their beliefs or identity, says a group of human rights organisations in a new report. The report finds that Iran’s ethnic […]
Iran detains three more activists after Iranian-Canadian dies in jail
25 February 2018 DUBAI (Reuters) – Iranian security forces have detained three more environmental activists on spying charges, the judiciary said on Sunday, weeks after a first wave of arrests and the death in detention of an Iranian-Canadian head of a wildlife group. “Three people were recently arrested in (southern) Hormozgan province. I cannot legally […]
Forced Confessions in Iran’s House of the Dead
By ERVAND ABRAHAMIANFEB. 22, 2018 New York Times “The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons,” Fyodor Dostoyevsky wrote in “The House of the Dead,” his semi-autobiographical novel about inmates in a Siberian prison camp. Iran continues to fail the Dostoyevsky test. The Evin Prison in Tehran, where a […]
Iranian women must remain united to advance rights
Leila Alikarami February 15, 2018 A new form of protest in Iran against mandatory veiling has received much attention in the press and social media in recent weeks. The bold waving of veils on sticks by women who have no apparent affiliation with any movement has not only provoked questions among politicians and even forced some […]
Iran protests are fire under ashes
LONDON, United Kingdom (Kurdistan 24) – After heavy government crackdown, the seemingly spontaneous nation-wide protests in Iran have been silenced, but a Nobel Peace Prize winner says the rage is ever present and will flame up at the next chance. Late in December 2017, Iranians took to the streets to protest the sluggish economy. The […]
FOUR NOBEL PEACE LAUREATES URGE IRAN TO RESPECT THE RIGHTS OF PROTESTERS
Ottawa – January 11, 2018 Nobel Peace Laureates Shirin Ebadi, Jody Williams, Leymah Gbowee and Tawakkol Karman, urge the Islamic Republic of Iran to conduct credible independent investigations into the use of violence, especially lethal violence, and mass arrests in reaction to protests held in 75 cities across the country, beginning on December 28, 2017. […]
