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Iran Focus
 London, Jun. 16 – The
international human rights groups Amnesty International condemned a crackdown
by Iran’s State Security
Forces (SSF) on a peaceful demonstration earlier this week by women in Tehran.
“Amnesty International condemns the Iranian security forces' violent
disruption of a peaceful demonstration on 12 June by women and men advocating
an end to legal discrimination against women in Iran. The demonstrators had
gathered in the Seventh of Tir Square in Tehran to
call, among other things, for changes in the law to give a woman's testimony
in court equal value to that of a man and for married women to be allowed to
choose their employment and to travel freely without obtaining the prior
permission of their husband”, the rights group said in a statement released
on Thursday.
The group said that agents of Iran’s
SSF “moved in as soon as the demonstration began and immediately started
beating the protestors with batons in order to force them to disperse”.
Amnesty said it had received the names of over 40 women and men reported to
be among those arrested.
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