Sunday, February 04, 2018

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On Sat. Feb. 3, the Iranian-Canadians in front of the Parliament Hill and across from PM office gathered once against to support the Iranian people's uprising for Regime_Change. They called for the freedom of all Iranian protesters in particular two Right activists Golrokh Iraee and Atena Daemi who were brutally beaten and transferred to the women's Notorious Gharchak Prison from Evin prison on Jan. 24. Atena and Golrokh began their hunger strike on Sat. Feb. 3, protesting the Iranian regime’s breach of the principle of classification and separation of prisoners and their own illegal exile to Varamin’s Qarchak Prison. They have threatened if they're not return to Evin, they would start a dry hunger strike on Feb. 10.  In support of these two women, political prisoners Soheil Arabi and Arash Sadeghi(Golrokh's husband) have gone on hunger strike as well.


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The Department of Intelligence in Sanandaj, capital of the Iranian Kurdistan province, has summoned Mrs. Dayeh Sharifeh on February 2. Mrs. Sharifeh’s sons, Ramin and Afshin Hossein Panahi, are political prisoners condemned to death. She was pressured to ask her sons to break their hunger strike. Instead she has said, “My sons have been unjustly sentenced to unfair sentences. A great injustice has been done to them. If the regime does not answer their demand, their father and I will set ourselves on fire in front of the Sanandaj Department of Intelligence.”

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The woman secretly executed on Tuesday, January 30, in the prison of Noshahr, northern Iran, has been identified as Mahboubeh Mofidi and she was 25 at the time of execution. She was only 17 when she committed the alleged crime. She was in prison for four years before she was executed. Mahboubeh is the 82nd woman who has been executed under Hassan Rouhani, but the third minor executed in just one month.


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According to state-run Rokna news Jan. 31, an Iranian 8-year-old girl is going to get married off to a boy instead of her father’s debt. Samira’s father works at a brick kiln in Pakdasht, in Tehran Province. He had borrowed 20 million toumans from his friend, but since he's not able to pay his debt, he has decided to wed his daughter to his friend’s son.
Samira was engaged to the 14-year-old boy when she was six and now she is going to be married, soon. Samira is only 8 years old. In a realated news, Tayyebeh Siavoshi, an Iran's Majlis deputy, tweeted on Saturday, February 3, that the age of marriage for girls which was supposed to be increased to 16 has been stopped for the time being, due to the opposition of men. In yet another tweet, Siavoshi wrote, “In some courts, judges who want to endorse marriage of girls under 13 years of age, show them a gold ring and ask them if it is a gold ring in order to determine whether the girl has reached rational maturity.” She added another existing problem is the fact that the marriages of child spouses are not registered.

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The State-run Mehr news reported on Feb. 3rd that Fatemeh Hodavand, member of Iran's women cycling team, in an interview said, “Women’s cycling do not receive any financial support. We have to buy our own bikes.” The cycling tournaments have already begun, but since Iranian women do not have any cycling tracks for practicing, they have to travel to Malaysia from a long time ahead of the tournament, she added. Hodavand said, “The bikes provided by the Federation are too big for women and we have to pay for our bikes without having any financial support.” The Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei reiterated that women are banned from riding bicycles in public in November.

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Agents of the Iranian Intelligence Ministry made a number of arrests in Tehran, Kermanshah (western Iran) and Behbahan (southwestern Iran), including two women activists. The women were Shima Babaii, arrested with her husband, and Leila Faraji who were arrested in Tehran. Other activists include: Saeed Eghbali, Daruish Zand, former political prisoner Behnam Moussivand and Mahmoud Masoumi.


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Mansoureh Behkish was sentenced to  7 1/2 years in prison by a revision court in Tehran for demanding justice for six of her siblings and in-laws executed in the 1980's in Iran. She is one of the prominent figures demanding justice for victims of the 1988 massacre in Iran.



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Iran'a Shahr-e Ray sharia court sentenced Sima Kian a baha'i woman on January 27, to one year of imprisonment. The verdict was implemented on the spot and she was taken to Evin prison. Ms. Kian was first arrested in March 2017, but released on bail a few weeks later.




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According to state-run IRNA news Jan. 31, the training camp for Iran's women national football team was cancelled before it began. The Vice President of Women’s Football Federation had earlier announced that in light of the upcoming Olympics 2020 and Asian Championship games in 2021, they planned to hire a coach from another country. But to save time in preparation for the football games, the prep camp was supposed to be opened with a local coach in late January.
Although Iranian women are active in different sports, but face may government limitaion, hoping they would be forced to stay home.