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The state-run ILNA reported on Feb. 23, the State Security Force in Iran announced, “According to paragraph 2 of Article 639, encouraging people to shun the veil is punishable by one to 10-year prison sentence. This sentence cannot be transformed to other forms of punishment.” The SSF further reiterated that “Appearing in public without the religious veil (Hijab) is punishable by up to two months’ imprisonment according to the waver of Article 638 of the Penal Code. This could be transformed to alternative forms of punishment and avoid imprisonment.The Iranian Resistance and the NCRI Women’s Committee call for abolition of the compulsory veil and strongly condemn suppression of women under the pretext of the compulsory veil.******
On Monday Feb. 19 Iranian regime's repressive forces attacked the gathering of dervishes in Tehran. Hundreds of Gonabadi Dervishes some 70 of them women were arrested and transferred to Greater Tehran prison and Qarchad prisons and many to an unknown locations. The security and intelligence forces surrounded the area. A group of people in the surrounding streets blocked the transfer of repressive forces to the location. A number of Security force motorcycles were destroyed by the protesters. Dervishes are the member of a Muslim religious order (specifically Sufi) who have taken vows of poverty and austerity. They can't practice their religion in peace and have been attacked many times. One of the women dervish's who's under torture and pregnant, is Leyli Nayebzadeh.******
Iranian women political prisoners Golrokh Iraee and Atena Daemi are held in horrible conditions in a small, dark room in Qarchak Prison while they are denied having telephone contacts or family visits. This was tweeted by Atena's father on Thursday, February 22. Mr. Hossein Daemi said the lives of these imprisoned women are in danger. According to Mr. Daemi, his daughter Atena and Golrokh Iraee who is still on hunger strike, are not well. Since February 21st, they have been deprived of having telephone contacts or going for fresh air after Dervish women were transferred to the same ward. Political prisoner Sohail Arabi, who has been banished to the Greater Tehran's Prison, aka Fashafouyeh, is in dire conditions after 29 days of hunger strike. Haji Moradi, the assistant Prosecutor of Evin Prison, has declared that even if Sohail dies, he would not be sent to a hospital.Yesterday Sat. Feb 24, Iranian-Canadians in Ottawa gathered in front of the Parliament Hill and across from Prime minister's office and called for the freedom of all political prisoners in particular Arash Sadeghi and his wife golrokh Iraee who is on hunger strike, Atenat Daemi and Soheil Arabi who's also on hunger stirke. They also called for the release of the Dervishes who were arrested on Monday.******
Amnesty International published its annual 2017/18 report on Thursday, February 22, evaluating the human rights situation in the world, including in Iran. The report has categorized Iran as one of the most prolific users of the death penalty. In the section entitled, “DISCRIMINATION – WOMEN AND GIRLS,” it highlighted women's violated rights in divorce, employment, political office, domestic violence, early and forced marriages, child custody, no rights to enter sports stadiums, compulsory hijab, denying Iranian women to pass their nationality who are married to non-Iranian men,... as such to name a few.******
Ms. Maryam Delbari an Abadani woman and a writer, has been sentenced to 18 months in prison and 2 years f compulsory service in the seminary of Boushehr for having connection with Qaderi Dervishes in Kurdistan. The sentence has been upheld by the appeals court. Abadan, is the second major capital in the oil-rich province of Khuzistan, in southwestern Iran and the port city of Boushehr is the capital of the southern coastal province of Boushehr.******
Teachers of Sanandaj, men and women who were expelled from their jobs on unfounded allegations in 1979-1981 staged a protest outside the Governorate of Kurdistan on Sunday, February 18. The teachers demanded their past-due wages, elimination of discrimination in their jobs, making official the employment of contract teachers, and let the expelled teachers to go back to work.
Some 100 managers of kindergartens in Tehran also staged a protest outside the Labor Ministry against a memorandum signed between the Welfare Organization and the Education Ministry on February 18. They want the memorandum revoked. According to this memorandum, children between 4 to 6 years of age, are going to be taken care of by the Ministry of Education, creating crises in the kindergartens.Pre-school educators for nomad children in Izeh also staged a portest against recruitment of inexperienced forces based on fraudulent relations.******
Students of Tehran’s University of Art and the University of Orumiyeh (NW Iran) staged protests against new policy to receive tuition from students. At the same time, plundered women and men held a protest in Rasht (N Iran).******
Officials of a cemetery in Iran posted signs for removal of tomb stones bearing women's images. The sign was seen in the Imamzadeh Hassan cemetery of Sabzevar on Thursday, February 15, which read, “Those having tomb stones on the graves of their loved ones bearing the images of women, must remove it as soon as possible. Otherwise, the tomb stone will be removed". Sabzevar is located in the Razavi Khorassan Province, NE of Iran.
On Monday Feb. 19 Iranian regime's repressive forces attacked the gathering of dervishes in Tehran. Hundreds of Gonabadi Dervishes some 70 of them women were arrested and transferred to Greater Tehran prison and Qarchad prisons and many to an unknown locations. The security and intelligence forces surrounded the area. A group of people in the surrounding streets blocked the transfer of repressive forces to the location. A number of Security force motorcycles were destroyed by the protesters. Dervishes are the member of a Muslim religious order (specifically Sufi) who have taken vows of poverty and austerity. They can't practice their religion in peace and have been attacked many times. One of the women dervish's who's under torture and pregnant, is Leyli Nayebzadeh.
Some 100 managers of kindergartens in Tehran also staged a protest outside the Labor Ministry against a memorandum signed between the Welfare Organization and the Education Ministry on February 18. They want the memorandum revoked. According to this memorandum, children between 4 to 6 years of age, are going to be taken care of by the Ministry of Education, creating crises in the kindergartens.
Students of Tehran’s University of Art and the University of Orumiyeh (NW Iran) staged protests against new policy to receive tuition from students. At the same time, plundered women and men held a protest in Rasht (N Iran).
