Sunday, October 29, 2017

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Mojgan Siyami, author and Managing Editor of Saray Magazine, has been arrested by security forces in Ardabil, northwestern Iran on Oct. 22 for unknown reasons. She has been transferred to an unknown location.







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According to State-run Rokna news agency, the State Security forces expelled three young women on Oct. 26 who were attempting to enter Azadi Stadium to watch the soccer match between the two most prominent Iranian football teams in the Capital Tehran. The female fans had donned men’s clothes in a bid to enter the stadium. Shahindokht Molaverdi, Hassan Rouhani’s Deputy for Citizen’s Rights Affairs, had recently admitted that the conditions are not yet prepared for women’s presence in soccer stadiums in Iran.

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People plundered by Iran Khodro car manufacturing company held a protest gathering Wednesday, October 25, in front of the Ministry of Mines and Industries on Tehran’s Somayyeh Street. The protesters including a significant number of women complained about having paid for a vehicle to the company’s office in East Tehran but receiving neither the vehicle nor their money back. They sat down in the middle of the street and chanted, “God is the greatest.” and their placards read, “Pre-sale of Iran Khodro products is a flagrant fraud.”

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The nurses and staff of Velayat Hospital in Rasht, northern Iran, staged a protest gathering to demand 13 months of unpaid fees. The majority of participants were women. Reports indicate that the hospital owes an average of 8 million toumans ($2.454) of unpaid fees to every single employee. The nurses, who are employed on temporary contracts, risk being fired by the hospital’s disciplinary office when they protest.


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Two young women were arrested in Iran for riding a motorbike and posting their pictures on the internet. State -run Aftab website Oct. 24 reported “The two young women whose pictures had been published on the internet were identified and dealt with,” said the commander of the State Security Force of the city of Dezful, in southwestern Khuzistan Province.


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Three women were arrested for modeling activities in Sistan-o Baluchistan Province, southeastern Iran. Ali Mohammadi, Commander of the Public Security Police in the province, announced, “A woman owning a hairdresser, had employed two other women as models for ads in the social networks to invite customers to her shop. The agents went to the business, arresting the three women and sealing the shop.” reported state run ISNA news Oct. 25.

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Iranian students staged a number of gatherings at Tehran’s Amir Kabir, Allameh Tabatabaii universities and the University of Qazvin on Monday, October 23, in protest of the new nominee for the Minister of Sciences and Higher Education. Female students actively participated in these gatherings. Similar gatherings took place on October 24, at the University of Sciences & Industries, and the School of Art in Tehran as well as at the Fedowsi University of Mashhad. 
Hassan Rouhani’s nominee, Mansour Gholami -who was proposed to the iranian regime's parliament on Sunday, October 22- currently presides over the Bou Ali Sina University of Hamedan. He held the same post under Mohammad Khatami (1997-2005) where students were beaten, killed and arrested by intelligence agents. He also opened the dormitories for entry of plain-clothes agents and endorsed the purchase of electric batons for the university’s disciplinary forces to facilitate their crackdown on students.

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Nurses of Tehran’s Khomeini Hospital held a gathering to protest their small salaries and pressure at work on Oct. 24. Mohammad Sharifi, Deputy Director of the National Nurses’ Organization, admitted on the same day that the nurses’ conditions have deteriorated under Rouhani and that some 500 nurses leave the country every year.



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Some 2000 Iranian men and women whose deposits have been plundered by state-backed credit institutions such as Caspian, Alborz-e Iranian (Arman) and Padideh gathered in front of the regime's Parliament in Tehran to demand their stolen money. The call for this rally had been issued on the internet in advance.




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The residents of Orumiyeh, northwestern Iran, were outraged on Monday, October 23, when news broke out that a janitor had sexually assaulted a 12-year-old girl at the school. The parents whose daughters studied in the city’s Shohada girls school poured into the school and set its equipment on fire.

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Sheida Abedi was arrested by intelligence agents at 7 am on Monday, October 21, at her home in Birjand, northwestern Iran. The intelligence agents thoroughly searched Ms. Abedi’s residence, after arresting this 26-year-old woman of Bahaii faith. Ten other Bahaiis have also been detained over the past week in the cities of Rasht, northern Iran, and Kermanshah in the west.



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A young Iranian woman was sentenced to 100 lashes and forced labor in a hospital for a year on the alleged charge of illicit online relations. Their trial was held on October 20.
The accusation was made based on the inspection of her massages in the Telegram social network by the Iranian Cyber Police (FATA).
The woman denied the charge, but the court sentenced her to 100 lashes and one year of forced labor in a mental hospital. The court also sentenced the accused man to a two-year exile in a remote village in southern Iran. Flogging and forced labor sentences are a punishment recently issued by the Iranian regime’s judiciary for online relationships, a charge that has not been defined as a crime in the Iranian regime’s laws.

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Students of Law and Political Sciences of Tehran University staged a protest gathering against mismanagement of the school and policies aimed at restriction of students’ activities.
Young women had a significant presence in this protest on Saturday, October 21, 2017, organized upon a previous call.
The students protested abysmal conditions of the college’s building and the officials’ failure to respond to their demands. College officials have not taken any measures so far to deal with the problems the students have raised.

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Iranian political prisoner Atena Daemi sent a letter out of prison announcing, “As an Iranian, I announce that not only I’m not an IRGC member, but I’m incarcerated because of IRGC’s crimes.”
Her statement follows the statements by the mullahs’ Foreign Minister, Javad Zarif, in reaction to the US black-listing of the Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), indicating that every Iranian is an IRGC member.
Ms. Daemi refused to attend a scheduled trial on Sunday, October 22, 2017, to examine new complaints filed against her by Evin Prison’s infirmary. Atena Daemi said she would not attend the court because it was “unjust” and that “Khani, head of the infirmary, and Charmahali, warden of Evin Prison, had to be prosecuted for denying her medical treatment.”
Atena Daemi had to undergo another surgery after her cholecystectomy to remove large kidney stones which the prison’s clinic officials have prevented.

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Iran’s girls’ basketball team was removed from the Asian U16 games because of the Iranian federation’s $325000 debt to FIBA. The team was to take part in the official event for the first time after 37 years. In response to reporters, Mahmoud Mashhoun, head of the Iranian Basketball Federation, only said, “I would be present in the meetings and will try to solve the problem.” reported state-run ISNA news agency – October 21.
The Iranian regime has demonstrated outright incompetence in managing sports, and particularly, women’s sports. Iranian female athletes do not enjoy any official support by the government.