DUBAI, United Arab Emirates –Jan 14,2019, ABC News -By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS- The head of the Thomson Reuters Foundation said Monday she’s “sincerely worried” about a detained British-Iranian national going on hunger strike to protest her treatment in the Islamic Republic.
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British-Iranian woman’s health deteriorates in Iran prison
Iran should realise jailing Nazanin Zaghari‑Ratcliffe harms its security
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is not alone, figuratively at least. Her incarceration is part of Iran’s wider war on women’s rights.’ Photograph: Peter Nicholls/Reuters
It is Tehran’s hardline clerics who are endangering the nation, not innocents languishing in the nation’s jails
Jan.11.2019 . Guardian – Simon Tisdall –
Iran’s merciless persecution of Nazanin Zaghari‑Ratcliffe, the Iranian-British woman held in Tehran’s Evin prison on spurious charges of spying, is deeply disturbing. What possible purpose was served by the airing this week on state television of a video showing her arrest in April 2016, as she prepared to board a plane to London?
Video of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s arrest shown on Iranian state TV
Broadcast comes as part of documentary accusing UK of trying to infiltrate Iran through BBC Persian channel
2019-01-09 -The Guardian – Iranian state TV has for the first time broadcast images of the April 2016 arrest of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe at Tehran airport.
Parliament Rejects Motion To Ban Marriage Of Girls Under Thirteen
2018-12-25 – Radio Farda- A parliamentary motion banning child marriage in Iran has been rejected by Majles (parliament), an MP reported.
A member of women’s faction in the Islamic Republic’s parliament, Tayyebeh Seyavoshi says, “The Legal and Judicial Commission of Majles has rejected a parliamentary motion that proposed a ban on allowing under thirteen-year-old girls to marry.”
Christmas Island asylum seeker children still waiting for release into community
Asylum seeker children have been moved off Christmas Island but remain in detention in Darwin. Photo: Wolter Peeters
January 22, 2015 -The Sydney Morning Herald- Children who were promised to be moved off Christmas Island and into the community by former immigration minister Scott Morrison remain in a Darwin immigration facility.
The 94 children and 100 family members are being held in the Blaydin Point Alternative Place of Detention in Darwin, where they have been held since late December.
Woman Hanged In Iran For Killing Alleged Rapist Sent Her Family A Chilling Message
Reyhaneh Jabbari
10-27-2014-Huffingtonpost- An Iranian woman who was executed on Saturday despite international pleas for clemency left her family a heartbreaking message several months before her death.
Reyhaneh Jabbari, 26, was hanged on Saturday morning in Tehran’s Evin prison after spending five years on death row for the 2007 murder of a man she said had tried to rape her.
State-run TV’s Disinformation Encourages Violence Against Women
Broadcasts on Hijab Campaign Spread Defamatory Messages and Blatant Falsehoods
June 2, 2014—The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran calls on President Rouhani to immediately institute supervision of Iran’s state TV and end the broadcast of programs that falsely defame dissidents and implicitly justify violence against women who do not wear the hijab, the compulsory dress that covers a woman’s head and body.
Iranian women post pictures of themselves without hijabs on Facebook
The Facebook page ‘Stealthy Freedoms of Iranian Women’ was set up 10 days ago and has since attracted thousands of photos. Photograph: Facebook
theguardian.com, Monday 12 May 2014 – Saeed Kamali Dehghan: Campaign set up by London-based Iranian journalist Masih Alinejad attracts more than 130,000 likes on social media site
Thousands of Iranian women are taking off their veils and publishing pictures of themselves online, igniting a debate about the freedom to wear or not wear the hijab.
Iranian human rights activist Sotoudeh: ‘Free forever’
+Tehran, Iran (CNN) — Nasrin Sotoudeh, a prominent Iranian human rights advocate, was among several prisoners released Wednesday from a Tehran prison where she had been jailed since 2010. “I’m glad, but I’m worried for my friends in prison,” she told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour in a telephone interview soon after her release, citing other political and human rights activists who remain in prison.
