Emergency Project: Courageous Women in Life-Threatening Danger!

Introduction

For over nine months, Iranian women have been courageously striving for basic human rights and freedom for themselves and the entire Iranian population. These brave women and girls have become emblematic of the uprising against the religious fundamentalist mullah dictatorship, showing how to overcome fear and stand up to the forces of repression.

Context and Background

• Current Situation: The Iranian populace, led by women and youth, continues to fight for human rights and freedom. The regime’s response has been brutal, with a wave of executions aimed at instilling fear and subservience.
• Importance: The determination and perseverance of these women have awakened a new understanding of women’s circumstances in Iran and generated tremendous solidarity throughout the populace.

Detailed Activities and Initiatives

1. Raise Awareness:
   • Highlighting the severe repression faced by women in Iran.
   • Using media and social platforms to share stories and raise international awareness.
2. Public Demonstrations:
   • Organizing vigils and protests to draw global attention.
   • Engaging with international human rights organizations to amplify the call for immediate action.
3. Legal and Diplomatic Efforts:
   • Collaborating with global legal bodies to submit evidence and reports.
   • Applying diplomatic pressure on the Iranian regime through international channels.

Specific Cases

On Monday 29 May 2023, Tayyebeh Nazari posted an Instagram message saying that her daughter Maryam Arvin, who had been arrested for defending a detained protester, died after being released on bail from prison, purportedly through the injection of tranquilizers and sedatives. Maryam Arvin, 29, was a lawyer and member of the Lawyers Association in Kerman Province, as well as a volunteer in fighting for the rights of deprived individuals, welfare children, and child laborers. Tayyebeh Nazari, who teaches literature at high schools in Sirjan, was also arrested after following up on her daughter’s tragic cause of death.

Atekeh Rajabi was a primary school teacher in a village near Mashhad. In January 2023, she was dismissed from her teaching job because of her support for the protest movement. Arrested on 9 May while attending a protest rally of teachers in Mashhad, she was taken to a Department of Intelligence detention center where she went on hunger strike in protest.

Another victim of the Iranian mullah regime’s brutality is 16-year-old schoolgirl Hasti Hossein-Panahi. On 10 November 2022, militias attacked a school in the city of Dehgolan and used batons to beat the schoolgirls who had protested against the obligation to wear a veil. Hasti was beaten on the head so severely that she suffered serious cranial injuries and fell into a coma. After five months of total incapacity, she awakened from the coma in April 2023 but can no longer move her arms or legs and is now dependent on a wheelchair.

Mariam Akbari Monfared, human rights activist and mother of three daughters, has been in prison for 12 years for a complaint she wrote to the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) concerning the execution of her sister and two of her brothers during the 1988 massacre of 30,000 Iranian prisoners.

In our campaign to win the release of these freedom-loving women, we very much need your support and financial assistance!

THE STATUS OF WOMEN UNDER IRAN’S RADICAL FUNDAMENTALIST DICTATORSHIP

Under the mullah regime in Iran, women have no value and no rights. For example: by law, it takes the word of two women to count as much as that of one man; moreover, a man can divorce his wife without justification, but a woman has no such right. Women do not have the right to choose their clothing, education, occupation and frequently even their husband, especially in poorer parts of the country. Girls are condemned from an early age to a life of oppression and coercion. 

However, this is just the fundamentalist regime’s view of women. The Iranian people themselves – especially the youth – demand equal rights for women and stand up for their freedom. Despite facing the threat of execution, they express their opinions, demonstrate and write commentaries. At many protest demonstrations, women are in the forefront.

Thousands of women have been executed since the radical fundamentalist mullahs established their dictatorship in Iran. Utterly blind to international conventions, the Iranian regime has committed crimes against humanity through the mass execution of individuals for no other reason than their beliefs. People in Iran have to pay for freedom with their lives.

Iranian women have been courageously and steadfastly striving for basic human rights and freedom for themselves and the entire Iranian population since the beginning of the September 2022 civil protests. The courageous women and girls have become the symbol of the uprising against the religious fundamentalist Mullah dictatorship. They have shown how to overcome fear and how to stand up to the forces of repression.

The staggering number of executions of women in Iran is unmatched by any other country. Under the laws of the fundamentalist mullah dictatorship, even girls as young as 9 can be sentenced to death. 

MENSCHENRECHTSARBEIT IST ERFOLGREICH!

Iranian women have been courageously and steadfastly striving for basic human rights and freedom for themselves and the entire Iranian population since the beginning of the September 2022 civil protests. The courageous women and girls have become the symbol of the uprising against the religious fundamentalist Mullah dictatorship. They have shown how to overcome fear and how to stand up to the forces of repression.

HISTORY OF DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMEN IN IRAN

The history of Iranian women’s resistance in their quest to achieve equal rights goes back more than 100 years – a long, hard road marked by several dictatorships that denied women any rights whatsoever. As bad as it was in earlier years, this discrimination reached its peak when the religious dictatorship wrested power in February 1979 following the overthrow of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.

The plight of Iranian women highlights the severe human rights violations under the mullah regime. Continued international pressure and advocacy are vital to stopping these atrocities and supporting the struggle for freedom and equality in Iran.