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Saeed Golestani, deputy for
prevention of crimes in the Justice Department of Hamedan-Iran announced: 1,596
marriages of girls under 15 years of age were registered in the city of Hamedan-Iran
during March 2018 – March 2019). He added: Sixty of those marriages ended up in
divorce.
While the Iranian regime sets 13 as
the legal age of marriage for girls, Saeed Golestani admitted, “12 years is the
age of childish plays not an age for having a husband and raising children.
Family traditions, however, have made such marriages a common practice,
creating problems for children.” (The official IRNA news agency – May 29, 2019)
It should be noted that the proposal for increasing the minimum age of marriage
for girls which currently is 13, was voted down by the regime’s parliament last
November.
3-year-old toddler victim of child abuse
A
three-year-old girl child went into coma after being beaten by her addicted
father. The little girl was taken to a medical center by residents of the
village near Marand, in East Azerbaijan Province. (The state-run ISNA news
agency – May 27, 2019)
The
three-year-old girl has regained her consciousness in the medical center, but
is still terrified and prefers to be away from people. Her addicted father is
being pursued by police.
Domestic violence against women
761
cases of domestic violence and 3 cases of child abuse have been registered in
the Boyer Ahmad and Kohgiluyeh Province in the Persian year 1397 (March 2018 –
March 2019). Of these cases, 721 were against women. The figure announced by
the general director of the Coroner’s Office in this province, shows 7.64%
increase compared to last year. (The state-run ISNA news agency – May 15, 2019)
Honor killing
A
young woman was murdered by her brother. Maryam Bakhtiari, 29, was hanged and
subsequently beheaded by her brother in Pahleh, a town near Dehloran, in
the western Iranian Province of Lorestan. This incident took place on the night
of May 4, 2019.
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Various sectors of Iranian society,
including teachers in Isfahan and Aredebil, defrauded investors of Caspian in
Tehran and Mashhad, Karaj hospital staff and the families of the students of
Narjes elementay schood for girls in Karaj, held protests in the final days of
May 2019.
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Three young girls drowned while
drinking water from Hootag. The tragic incident took place
in Chabahar, one of the cities of Iran’s deprived Sistan and Baluchestan
Province.
In the absence of pipelines and
even tankers, people in this region dig ditches called Hootag to collect rain
water. Hootags are considered as water reservoirs for village inhabitants. The
water is also used for both humans and animals and is extremely contaminated.
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Male security guards entered female
footabllers locker room, using verbal and physical violence against the players
and their head coach in the course of a women’s football match in
Shiraz-Iran. During the football match between Zagros of Shiraz and Gas
Refinery of Ilam which took place in the Pars stadium of Shiraz on May 25, one
of the female footballers of the team from Ilam, was verbally assailed and
subsequently punched in the stomach by a male security guard as she was
entering the locker room. According to “FootLady” website which reports on Iranian
women’s football and futsal, Sarina Farajollahi was hurt so badly that she had
to be taken to hospital.
The head coach of Ilam’s football
team, Fatemeh Hayati, reacted by trying to push the guard out of the locker
room, but she was also punched in the chest and thrown to the ground. Another
female footballer, Neda Azizpour, tried to record the scene by filming it, but
her mobile was snatched away from her by another male security guard.
(The state-run ISNA news agency – May 28, 2019)
The women’s football team of Ilam
submitted the relevant documents on the physical assault on Sarina Farajollahi
to the Football Federation of Iran.
Security guards are not allowed to
deal with athletes and physically punish them. In the meantime, no one has
accounted on why the male security guards had entered the locker
room, while even fathers and husbands of female footballers are not allowed in
the stadium.
The clerical regime does
not respect female athletes and does not support their activities. While
according to the rules of the misogynous clerical regime, no men are allowed
inside the stadium when women are playing, male agents are green lighted to
brutalize women under various pretexts.
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The legal and security officials of
the Sepidar Prison of Ahvaz have prevented dispatch of political prisoner
Ameneh Zahersari to hospital. The political prisoner Ameneh Zahersari, 20 and a
graduate of accounting, is incarcerated in the Sepidar Prison of Ahvaz after
her brother and father were arrested in November 6, 2018.
She has been suffering from acute
swelling of various parts of her body. The physician of the prison’s dispensary
has not been able to diagnose the reason for the acute swelling and illness of
Ameneh Zahersari and she must be dispatched to hospital as soon as possible for
diagnosis and treatment.
Ms. Zahersari’s family have managed
to receive a 300-million-toman bail bond from the 12th interrogation
branch of the Court of Ahvaz to facilitate her transfer to hospital, but the
legal and security officials in Sepidar Prison have been preventing the
transfer of this political prisoner to hospital.
The family says, “Her
health condition is deteriorating every day and she needs to receive emergency
care and medical treatment in hospital.”
Political prisoner Ameneh
Zahersari was arrested on November 6, 2018, one day after her father and
brother were apprehended by the Intelligence Department of Ahvaz. The 12th Inspection
Branch of the Court of Ahvaz has set a 300-million-toman bail for this
political prisoner but prison officials have so far refrained from releasing
her.
Denial of medical
treatment to political prisoners is one of the most common methods the Iranian
regime uses to bring double pressure on political prisoners.
Kurdish political
prisoner Zeinab Jalalian, who has a life sentence in the Prison of
Khoy, has been suffering from various diseases and illness for a long time.
However, she has been denied from receiving medical treatment despite
deterioration of her health condition, specially her eyes. Prison officials are
in this way putting pressure on her to force her into making false confessions.
In a call for urgent action on June 15, 2018, Amnesty International
said Zeinab Jalalian is being subjected to torture by blocking her access to
medical care.
