Iran's former reformist president Mohammad Khatami Thursday vehemently denied breaking Islamic rules by shaking hands with women on a trip to Italy, amid growing condemnation from conservatives.
Iran has sentenced a women's rights activist to flogging and almost three years in jail for taking part in a 2006 protest over "discriminatory" laws, the ILNA news agency reported Tuesday.
Judicial authorities in Iran have sentenced two women activists who participated in a peaceful protest against discriminatory laws in June 2006 to more than 30 months in jail and ten lashes.
Iranian-American scholar Haleh Esfandiari was released from prison in Iran on bail today, the ISNA news agency reports. Dr. Esfandiari had been detained for over 100 days on charges that she was an alleged threat to Iranian national security.
The women behind the Million Signatures Campaign say that many of Iran's laws discriminate against women. An Iranian woman does not automatically confer citizenship on her children or spouse, and in some cases a woman who marries a foreigner can lose her Iranian citizenship.
Parvin Ardalan, a leading Iranian women's rights activist, has won the Palme Award for her work and commitment to human rights.
Former lawmaker and journalist Azam Taleghani is one of two women to have announced plans to run in Iran's presidential election in June.In the unlikely event Taleghani were to become president, she would encounter obstacles not often associated with a head of state.To attend state functions abro
Former lawmaker and journalist Azam Taleghani is one of two women to have announced plans to run in Iran's presidential election in June.In the unlikely event Taleghani were to become president, she would encounter obstacles not often associated with a head of state.
Mir Hossein Mousavi, the centrist candidate in Iran's June presidential elections, may be an old hand in politics but he certainly has a modern style for campaigning, at least in one sense.