On the second anniversary of the disputed June 2009 election and the ensuing repression, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran today released video testimony from a young female detainee, describing in detail her …
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‘No Let-Up’ In Secret Executions In Iran
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Iranian Women Prisoners: ‘Death Was Like a Desire’
When the guard was shaving my hair, he was purposely shaving in a way that would cut my skin very painfully. And he left a little patch of hair in front just to bother me. I wasn't sitting in a chair as he was cutting my hair. He was holding me from behind and rubbing himself against me.
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The Riskiest Job in Iran
By Shirin Ebadi Not so long ago, my colleague Nasrin Sotoudeh was the lawyer so many of us human rights defenders in Iran would call when our government harassed us or put one of us, …
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Jafar Panahi: This is Not a Film
"Hope is what is guarding us. It's how we are able to work and to carry on. Hope is the last thing we've got."
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Essential Readings: Iran
by: Raha Iranian Feminist Collective [Image by Farhad Rajabali. Originally published at Jadaliyya] In recent years, there has been a deluge of popular English-language writings by Iranians in exile, as well as hand-wringing public policy …
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Articles
(Originally published at http://www.utoronto.ca/prisonmemoirs/) Political Prisoners of Iran 1988 executions of Iranian political prisoners (Wikipedia entry). A., Maryam. (?). “Prison Sketches: Memories of the women’s block in Evin, 1980.” Iran Bulletin: Middle East Forum: 69-72. …
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The New International Focus on Human Rights in Iran
by Dokhi Fassihian On March 25, the United Nations Human Rights Council voted to single out Iran as a nation deserving of a special rapporteur on human rights to monitor its suspected abuses. The appointment of the …
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Islamic Feminism & Its Discontents
by: Val Moghadam “What one can say about this encounter is that the Latin American and Caribbean feminist movement forms part of the social and political map of the region; because of this it cannot avoid …
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Letter from Tehran
by: Manijeh Nasrabadi [Originally published on Jadalliya.com. This interview was conducted in Tehran by Manijeh Nasrabadi of the Raha Iranian Feminist Collective one year after the green uprising. For more from the Raha Iranian Feminist …
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Transing and Transpassing Across Sex-Gender Walls in Iran
by: Afsaneh Najmabadi Introduction Something happened in 2003-04: transsexuals and transsexuality in Iran suddenly became a hot media topic, both in Iran and internationally. The medical practice of sex-change by means of surgery and hormones …
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