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According to state-run Rokna website Dec. 15, A young woman named Mojgan is sentenced to death and her sentence has been upheld by the Iranian regime's Supreme Court of Justice. Mojgan is charged with murdering her husband two years ago in July 2015 when she was 21. The court first exonerated her from the charge of premeditated murder and then sentenced her to pay blood money for committing non-deliberate murder. The regime's Supreme Court, however, did not uphold the verdict and ultimately sentenced Mojgan to death. Thus far 81 women have been executed during Hassan Rouhani’s tenure.

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Officials of an all girls’ school in Islam Abad Village in Orumiyeh, northwestern Iran, cut the students’ hair to force them to observe the compulsory veil. To force the girls to wear headbands beneath their scarves to cover their forehead hair, the school’s principal and master went to the court yard in the company of several State Security forces. Using scissors, they personally cut the hair of those girls whose hair stuck out of their scarves. This treatment provoked the girls’ protest. Security forces are still present in this school. Earlier, on November 12, some 500 female students in this school staged a protest against the compulsory veiling, where security forces barged into the school and confiscated the girls’ mobiles and deleted their clips to prevent leakage of any information on their protest.

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An Iranian Kurdish woman Soheila Zobeiri 46 and her daughter
Safa Hassnpour, 18, from Sardasht were taken to prison on Wednesday, December 13, to serve their sentences.The mother has been sentenced to 24 months in prison, and her daughter,  to six months, on the charge of “disrupting public order by participating in protest gatherings.” They were arrested and judged during a protest demonstration in May of 2015 against the suspicious death in Mahabad of a young Kurdish woman, Farinaz Khosravani. Farinaz, 26, worked in Tara Hotel of Mahabad but jumped out of the window on fourth floor on May 4, 2015, and died to defend herself against rape by an Intelligence Ministry agent. Her death was ensued by massive protests in Mahabad and other Kurdish cities.

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A number of young men and women, students of Tehran’s Melli University (Beheshti), staged a protest on Thursday, December 14, against the university’s collection of extra fees for make-up courses. The students including a significant number of women insisted to continue their protest until the university’s president responds to their demands. The university had witnessed a similar protest on December 2.


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Men and women plundered by Caspian credit institute in Kerman gathered on Thursday, December 14, outside the institute’s Khajou branch in this southern Iranian city. Furious protesters set on fire the Caspian posters and threatened to set the bank on fire if their money is not returned. They chanted slogans, vowing to continue their protest.



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Under-aged women and young girls are sold and traded under the pretext of marriage in some parts of Iran, said Parvaneh Salahshouri, head of the women’s faction in the Iranian regime's parliament. According to state-run Shafaghna website Dec. 14, she added: “Giving under-aged girls to marriage causes serious harms both to the individual and to society. 50% of early marriages lead to the deaths of the mother or her baby. There is also 70% higher chance of cancer in such mothers.” Salahshouri said: “Even if the Parliament passes a bill against child marriages, it is not possible to take any measure to resolve this problem because such marriages are sanctioned by the Sharia laws.” She also took note of the dire conditions of women’s sports and said, “Despite observance of gender segregation in the sports arenas, women’s sport has gone under question due to numerous restrictions in force.”

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Men and women plundered by state-backed credit institutes of Caspian and Vali-e Asr staged gatherings in three major Iranian capitals, Tehran, Mashhad and Rasht, on Wednesday December 13, and demanded their money back. It's been months since the people from all over Iran, showcase huge protests demanding their long life savings back from credit institutes of Caspian. It's worth mentioning that the Iarnian regime's president Hassan Rouhani, Iranian regime's president has added another %40 increase to a terrorist entity IRGC's budget to continue it's Malicious and destructive actions in the Middle East.

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Tehran women’s Naft futsal team was suspended on Tuesday, December 12, following a letter by the General Director of Youths and Sports of Tehran Province, Reza Gol Mohammadi. The letter contained a long list of appointments and dismissals of Tehran officials in charge of sports, which had ultimately dissuaded the team’s sponsor from supporting the team, reported state-run ISNA news, Dec. 12.

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A young 28-year-old Iranian woman is among those who have to sell their body parts to earn their living. Donya Raha is to sell one of her kidneys and part of her liver in order to live. Donya’s mother had eight children when she got divorced 15 years ago. She works at a dairy factory in Neyshabur, northeastern Iran, and earns 820,000 toumans ($230) a month at best.
Donya has a B.A. in physical education but has not found a suitable job. She works as a secretary at a doctor’s office. Together with her mother, they earn 1.37 million toumans ($385) a month which is still 3 million toumans ($840) below the line of poverty. Since they are about to lose their housing and have no hope of saving any money, Donya has decided to sell one of her kidneys and part of her liver. It has been two months that Donya has posted an ad on the internet to sell her kidney.State-run Salamatnews.com reported on December 12.

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On Dec. 12, in Tehran, contract teachers the majority of whom women, staged a gathering outside the regime's Parliament, demanding determination of their employment status. In Kermanshah, western Iran, depositors cheated by the Gelim and Gebeh Company gathered outside the Governor’s Office and demanded their money back. State Security forces attacked the gathering and beat up the protesters including one of the protesting women. The SSF also used pepper gas to disperse the crowd. In the northern province of Gilan, too, depositors gathered outside the Caspian Institute’s branch in this province and compelled them to close down the branch.