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UN Voices Alarm over Plight of Girls in Iran
Justice for Iran (JFI), 5 February 2016: The UN has criticised Iran for forcing girls to wear hijab (Islamic veil) at the very young age of 7 irrespective of their religious affiliations. Following a...
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Shocking development in Jalalian’s case: Government proposes to keep a family...
Justice for Iran (JFI), 11 March 2016: On the eight year anniversary of Kurdish political prisoner Zeinab Jalalian’s arrest; Iranian prison officials, in Khoi prison, have demanded to keep one of...
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Iran admits to conducting a virginity test on Atena Farghadani
Justice for Iran (JFI), 11 March 2015: Islamic Republic of Iran’s authorities have admitted to subjecting Atena Farghadani to a virginity test while in captivity of the Iran’s Evin prison in their...
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International Women’s Day plea to Iran to release Kurdish women’s right...
Human rights organisations Justice for Iran and REDRESS are concerned about the health and well-being of Zeinab Jalalian, a female Kurdish activist who is currently serving a life sentence in Iran...
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41 NGOs Urge Renewal of Mandate for Special Rapporteur on Iran
On Thursday, March 16, Justice for Iran and 40 other NGOs addressed a joint statement to the permanent representatives of member states of the United Nations Human Rights Council. In the statement, we...
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Iran’s first Oscar submission directed by woman causes stir
samaa.tv: TEHRAN, Iran: A movie about a young girl whose fantasy world helps her escape the hard realities of growing up in the countryside near Tehran in the aftermath of the 1979 Islamic Revolution...
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A decade of resistance behind Iranian bars
New Internationalist: Soudeh Alikhani of the Justice for Iran campaign writes on the 10th anniversary of the women’s rights activist Zeinab Jalalian’s arrest – on International Women’s Day Ten years...
View ArticleViolating children rights: Girl marriages
On 28 May 2018, Iranian officials disclosed that 3635 marriages involving girls under the age of 15, and 8 involving girls under the age of 10, were recorded in East Azerbaijan over the past year...
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HuffingtonPost:Women in Iran are wearing white to protest mandatory dress code
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/iran-white-wednesdays_us_59541f9ae4b05c37bb7bd2fb?guccounter=2 Women in Iran are sharing photos and videos of themselves wearing white on Wednesdays in symbolic...
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‘Stop Harassing Activists’ Families,’ Rights Groups Tell Iran
Iranian journalist Masih Alinejad said the authorities had pressured her sister’s family to denounce her on state TV. RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty- Three human rights organizations have urged Iranian...
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