Tag: women
member name: Lily Mazahery
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July 01, 2006 03:42 PM EDT --
According to AdnkronosInternational (AKI), on June 29, 2006, another Iranian woman was sentenced to death by stoning. A court in the northwestern Iranian city of Urmia found the Kurdish woman, Malak . . .
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May 13, 2006 03:20 PM EDT --
A rise in the incidence of "temporary" marriages among Shi'ite Muslims is causing concern among women's rights activists. According to women's NGOs in the south of the country, more . . .
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July 03, 2006 06:29 PM EDT --
Here is the direct link:
http://www.petitiononline.com/Malak/petition.html
UPDATE: This is the link to the web site that has been set up to provide background information, as well as updates . . .
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August 06, 2006 12:01 PM EDT --
In the early morning hours of a gloomy day in August of 2004, a 16 year old girl by the name of Atefeh Sahaaleh Rajabi, was executed in public. Imam Haji Rezai, the powerful head of the Islamic judiciary . . .
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April 26, 2006 02:20 PM EDT --
This is the English translation of the court transcript, originally published in Etemaad, a state-backed publication in Iran. Aside from highlighting the atrocities to which women and girls are subjected . . .
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May 15, 2006 01:33 PM EDT --
Even though we (Americans) invaded Iraq to -- among the countless reasons presented -- ensure the establishment of freedom and democracy in that country, we seem woefully powerless in answering the . . .
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August 29, 2006 01:10 PM EDT --
Iranian women's rights activists are initiating a wide campaign demanding an end to legal discrimination against women in Iranian law. The Campaign, "One Million Signatures Demanding Changes to . . .
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August 16, 2006 08:47 AM EDT --
For those of you who wondered whether your objections to the atrocities of the Islamic regime towards women and children could possibly have an impact, I present to you the following letter from . . .
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September 16, 2006 01:54 PM EDT --
Please read and sign this VERY important and TIME SENSITIVE petition.
Warm regards,
Lily Mazahery
To: The Secretary General of the United Nations, Kofi . . .
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April 18, 2006 09:53 AM EDT --
Wednesday, March 08, 2006
Speech to members of Congressional Women's Caucus and members of the United States House of Representatives re: Human rights violations of woman in Iran.
Good . . .
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April 18, 2006 01:27 PM EDT --
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian police said on Tuesday they would launch a crackdown on "social corruption" such as women flouting Islamic dress codes, the semi-official Fars news agency reported. . . .
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April 11, 2006 09:38 AM EDT --
The concept of male surrogate and guardianship of females is one of the main pillars of Islamic Fundamentalism in Iran. Iranian women are not free to choose or control various aspects of their lives. Evidence . . .
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July 21, 2006 02:54 PM EDT --
Malak Ghorbany, a woman from the Iranian region of Naghdeh, has been convicted of the crime of "adultery" for engaging in acts of intimacy with a man to whom she is not married. . . .
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April 18, 2006 02:18 PM EDT --
When the Islamic clerics took over the government of Iran in 1979, they moved quickly to establish gender-apartheid by declaring women incompetent to fulfill key positions, such as members of . . .
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July 26, 2006 09:19 AM EDT --
A 37 year old woman by the name of Ashraf Kalahri is scheduled to be publicly stoned in two weeks.
July 24, 2006 -- As the following interview reveals, the Islamic Republic's medieval clobbering machine . . .
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July 26, 2006 03:58 PM EDT --
As an Iranian lawyer and a human rights defender, I am writing to you to
ask you to help me save the life of a woman sentenced to death by stoning! Asharf Kalhori, who is currently in Evin prison . . .
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April 27, 2006 07:29 PM EDT --
Many of you have asked whether, in light of the fact that Iran is currently ruled by a group of misogynistic mad-men, anything that we do can actually save Nazanin, the 18 year old girl who has been sentenced . . .
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May 04, 2006 11:37 AM EDT --
Thanks to suggestions from many of you in the gather community, as well as my Norwegian counterpart, who has been immensely supportive and dedicated to saving Nazanin, the Iranian teenage rape victim who . . .
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August 28, 2006 11:28 AM EDT --
At a time when our nation is divided on so many issues, it is comforting to know that there are at least some topics that unite groups from the left (i.e. the San Francisco Board of Supervisors) with . . .
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August 10, 2006 10:33 AM EDT --
San Francisco: U.S. State Dept Must Condemn Female Executions by Public Stoning in Iran
At the San Francisco Board of Supervisors' meeting today, Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi, an all-around good guy . . .
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