Iran: Child Marriages in One Province increase rapidly 1,600 in Just One Year
A judicial official in the province of Hamedan said that 1,596 child brides married in the western province last year. The Social Deputy of Crime Prevention at the Hamedan Judiciary also said that from these marriages, 10% had led to divorce. These kinds of marriages have dire consequences for child brides including child pregnancy,... Read More
Iran: Woman Sentenced To Death Based On Qasameh
A woman suspected of murdering her husband was sentenced to death in Iran based solely on Qsameh, the state-run ISNA news agency reported. Citing that the case has “procedural and substantive” defects, the woman’s attorney Abdulsamad Khorramshahi who was cited by ISNA said they have submitted an appeal and the case will be... Read More
Iran rejects the Bill to Prevent Violence against Women
The Iranian authorities is still blocking the Provision of Security for Women against violence (PSW) bill, “expressing doubts over whether the heavy punishments stipulated in the bill for violations of women’s rights may actually weaken the family structure, i.e. putting a husband in jail for beating his wife”, Gholam-Hossein Mohseni... Read More
Sufi Woman Imprisoned With Drug Offenders
Shokoufeh Yadollahi, an imprisoned member of Iran’s Gonabadi Dervish minority is believed to be in a critical health condition and have lost her ability to talk. She has been suffering from chronic headaches due to inhaling smoke of drugs and cigarettes as she has recently been locked up with some of the dangerous criminals –... Read More
87th Woman Executed During Rouhani’s Presidential Time in Iran
A woman was hanged on Wednesday, 30 January, 2019, in Nowshahr Prison, the northern Iranian province of Mazandaran. The woman identified only as M.A, was convicted of “killing her husband.” She had spent six years on death row. The woman is the 87th woman who is executed under Hassan Rouhani, the Iranian regime’s... Read More