Popular anti-war Labour MP Clare Short promoting the documentary
I just heard the great news that the undercover documentary Execution of a teenage girl produced by Arash Sahami (left in the picture) won the television documentary award at the Amnesty International Media Awards tonight. Arash Sahami and his team risked their lives by going undercover in […]
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Ehteram Shadfar, an Iranian women rights activists from the One Million Signatures campaign has been arrested, just in time for the anniversary of the day of solidarity of Iranian women against the discriminatory Sharia laws of the Islamic Republic on June 12.
According to Ehteram’s daughter Maryam Taghavi, the arrest took place by plain clothed […]
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A shopkeeper in 7-Tir square in Tehran mentioned later “The officers questioned three girls, aged 25- 30, for their veils. The questioning was so harsh that they reacted. A female officer started pulling a girl’s hand to get her in the police patrol, but she refused. Then, a male officer attacked the girl. […]
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It is not just the slutty hijab that bothers Islamic Republic. They have banned western haircut, ties, sugar and sugar cubes and imported tea.
Could this be the reason why this unidentified man torched himself outside Ahmadinejad’s office?
How about the Harasat, the security/moral police on university campuses across the country? They don’t just harass […]
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