Sunday, March 12, 2017

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Workers of Parsilon Factory staged a protest with their families outside the Governor's Office in Khorramabad, capital of western Lorestan Province, on Friday March 10. They were protesting unpaid wages, employment insurance etc...



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Some 700 retired teachers and staff of the Education Ministry, who the majority of whom were women, staged a protest outside the Iranian regime's parliament in Tehran at 10 a.m. on Thursday, March 9, demanding freedom of imprisoned activists, balancing of their salaries and insurances, and elimination of discrimination.
Protesters carried placards which read, "Teachers must not be imprisoned", "we demand elimination of discrimination in the educational regime", and "we, the retired teachers, demand our salaries and insurance be efficiently balanced with other ministries."
The State Security Force attempted to disperse the demonstrators and prevent it from spreading. They did not allow anyone to take photos or films. The internet access in the area and its periphery was disconnected. In addition to Tehran, teachers held similar demonstrations outside the departments of education in 28 cities across the country, including Shiraz, Mashhad, Rasht, Qazvin, Tabriz, Isfahan, Ahwaz, Sanandaj and Shahroud.

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On Wednesday night, March 8, a ten-year-old girl hanged herself in the town of Takab, near Orumiyeh, capital of West Azerbaijan Province. The child identified as Shadi M. committed suicide due to family problems.




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According to State-run Fars news agency March 19, two women, one of them pregnant, were splashed with acid in the same week in the Petroshimi Park in Mahshahr, southwestern Province of Khuzistan. Acid attacks on women have become a common practice since October 2014 after the adoption of a bill in the regime's parliament giving support to those who "promote virtue and forbid evil", the term used to justify state-backed hoodlums who attack and terrorize women on the streets for not observing the mandatory veil.

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Amnesty International and 19 other NGOs and human rights organizations issued a joint statement on March 8, calling on the Iranian authorities to stop the harassment, intimidation and prosecution of human rights defenders seeking truth and justice on behalf of individuals who were summarily executed or forcibly disappeared during the 1980s and their families.
According to this statement, over the past few months, several human rights defenders, including Mansoureh Behkish, Maryam Akbari-Monfared and Raheleh Rahemipour, have been subjected to harassment, reprisals or prosecution on vague national security-related charges for their peaceful efforts to learn the fate and whereabouts of their loved ones. The persecution signals renewed efforts by the authorities to suppress the struggle that has been ongoing for over three decades to reveal the truth about the gross human rights violations that were perpetrated by the Iranian authorities during the 1980s, including the extrajudicial executions of several thousands in 1988 and their burial in unmarked mass graves.


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An international conference was held in Tirana, Albania, on the occasion of the International Women's Day where thousands of the members of People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran or PMOI are currently residing.
Maryam Rajavi the president-elect of the National Council Resistance of Iran or NCRI , political personalities and activists of the equality movement from various countries participated. The conference entitled, 'Women in Political Leadership', featured speeches on the threat of the fundamentalist and misogynous tyranny in Iran, the Iranian women's resistance against the regime and the trailblazing role of the vanguard heroines of Ashraf. The PMOI members were transferred from Iraq to Albania recently as a unit despite efforts by the Iranian regime to force them to surrender. The Ashrafies were subject of numerous missile and military attacks by the Iraqi forces by the order of Khamenei the Iranian regime's supreme leader as well as blockade of food, medicine, oil for 14 years in Camps Asharf and later Liberty in Iraq.


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Massoumeh Zia continues to remain incarcerated in an undecided state after two months. She is incarcerated in the notorious Ward 209 of the Evin Prison and according to her family investigations into her case have not concluded yet and no verdict has been issued for her release. Ms. Zia was arrested on January 6, 2017 at the airport upon arrival from a family visit abroad.


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Two women were executed on March 4, in the Central Prison of Rasht. No information has been published on their identities. The number of women executed during Rouhani's tenure has reached to 75 so far.




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On Saturday, March 4, students of the school of literature at the Allameh University in Tehran staged a protest where a considerable number of protesters were female students.
They were protesting measures by the university's security department or Harassat to segregate the school's entrances, as well as their illegal and unsuitable treatment of the students.