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PostPosted: Sat Mar 04, 2006 5:43 pm    Post subject: International Women's Day March 8th: FREE WOMEN IN IRAN Reply with quote

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cyrus wrote:
International Women's Day

http://www.un.org/ecosocdev/geninfo/women/womday97.htm

International Women's Day (8 March) is an occasion marked by women's groups around the world. This date is also commemorated at the United Nations and is designated in many countries as a national holiday. When women on all continents, often divided by national boundaries and by ethnic, linguistic, cultural, economic and political differences, come together to celebrate their Day, they can look back to a tradition that represents at least nine decades of struggle for equality, justice, peace and development.

International Women's Day is the story of ordinary women as makers of history; it is rooted in the centuries-old struggle of women to participate in society on an equal footing with men. In ancient Greece, Lysistrata initiated a sexual strike against men in order to end war; during the French Revolution, Parisian women calling for "liberty, equality, fraternity" marched on Versailles to demand women's suffrage.


The idea of an International Women's Day first arose at the turn of the century, which in the industrialized world was a period of expansion and turbulence, booming population growth and radical ideologies. Following is a brief chronology of the most important events:


1909

In accordance with a declaration by the Socialist Party of America, the first National Woman's Day was observed across the United States on 28 February. Women continued to celebrate it on the last Sunday of that month through 1913.


1910

The Socialist International, meeting in Copenhagen, established a Women's Day, international in character, to honour the movement for women's rights and to assist in achieving universal suffrage for women. The proposal was greeted with unanimous approval by the conference of over 100 women from 17 countries, which included the first three women elected to the Finnish parliament. No fixed date was selected for the observance.


1911

As a result of the decision taken at Copenhagen the previous year, International Women's Day was marked for the first time (19 March) in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland, where more than one million women and men attended rallies. In addition to the right to vote and to hold public office, they demanded the right to work, to vocational training and to an end to discrimination on the job.


Less than a week later, on 25 March, the tragic Triangle Fire in New York City took the lives of more than 140 working girls, most of them Italian and Jewish immigrants. This event had a significant impact on labour legislation in the United States, and the working conditions leading up to the disaster were invoked during subsequent observances of International Women's Day.


1913-1914

As part of the peace movement brewing on the eve of World War I, Russian women observed their first International Women's Day on the last Sunday in February 1913. Elsewhere in Europe, on or around 8 March of the following year, women held rallies either to protest the war or to express solidarity with their sisters.


1917

With 2 million Russian soldiers dead in the war, Russian women again chose the last Sunday in February to strike for "bread and peace". Political leaders opposed the timing of the strike, but the women went on anyway. The rest is history: Four days later the Czar was forced to abdicate and the provisional Government granted women the right to vote. That historic Sunday fell on 23 February on the Julian calendar then in use in Russia, but on 8 March on the Gregorian calendar in use elsewhere.


Since those early years, International Women's Day has assumed a new global dimension for women in developed and developing countries alike. The growing international women's movement, which has been strengthened by four global United Nations women's conferences, has helped make the commemoration a rallying point for coordinated efforts to demand women's rights and participation in the political and economic process. Increasingly, International Women's Day is a time to reflect on progress made, to call for change and to celebrate acts of courage and determination by ordinary women who have played an extraordinary role in the history of women's rights.


The Role of the United Nations
Few causes promoted by the United Nations have generated more intense and widespread support than the campaign to promote and protect the equal rights of women. The Charter of the United Nations, signed in San Francisco in 1945, was the first international agreement to proclaim gender equality as a fundamental human right. Since then, the Organization has helped create a historic legacy of internationally agreed strategies, standards, programmes and goals to advance the status of women worldwide.

Over the years, United Nations action for the advancement of women has taken four clear directions: promotion of legal measures; mobilization of public opinion and international action; training and research, including the compilation of gender desegregated statistics; and direct assistance to disadvantaged groups. Today a central organizing principle of the work of the United Nations is that no enduring solution to society's most threatening social, economic and political problems can be found without the full participation, and the full empowerment, of the world's women.

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Email: mediainfo@un.org


cyrus wrote:
6 Brave Daughters of IRAN Biography As Part of Million Victims of Islamist Regime in Past 27 Years



In memory of Dr. Farrokhrou Parsa M.D.

Executed on May 8, 1980 in Public


Who was Dr. Farokhrou Parsa?

Over 26 year ago, today, the executioners of the Islamic regime took the life an Iranian woman, known for her courage, integrity and effort in the promotion of education for Iranian women.Dr. Forokhrou Parsa who was a medical doctor was the first Iranian woman who became a deputy and later Minister of Education. Her mother was the founder of the first Iranian journal for women. Rich in her background, Dr. Parsa began a relentless battle in the liberalization of Iranian women. During her tenure as the Minister of education, Millions of female students attended universities and schools and enjoyed the same rights as their male counterparts.

Dr. Parsa's legacy as a courageous woman is an example to all Iranians and especially the women of Iran who have stood firm against the abuses of the regime in every arena. Today, her memory remains in the hearts and minds of thousands of Iranian women.God bless her soul.


In memory of Professor Dr. Homa Darabi M.D.

Professor Dr. Homa Darabi was one of the casualties of this Reign of Islamic Terror. She was a medical doctor specializing in pediatrics, general psychiatry, and child and adolescent psychiatry, and was licensed to practice medicine in New Jersey, New York, and California. In 1990, she was fired from her position as a professor at the School of Medicine at Tehran University due to her non compliance to the Islamic rules of Hijab (Covering up of Women). When a 16 year old girl was shot to death in Northern Tehran for wearing lipstick about a month prior to her death, Dr. Darabi could no longer handle the way women were being treated in Iran, she finally decided to protest the oppression of women by setting herself on fire in a crowded square in northern Tehran, on February 21, 1994. Her last cry was
Death to Tyranny
Long Live Liberty
Long Live Iran
Dr. Homa Darabi :http://www.homa.org/Details.asp?ContentID=2137352839&TOCID=2083225413


In Memory of Ms. Zahra Kazemi


Ms. Zahra Kazemi, a Canadian-Iranian photojournalist, was arrested on June 23, 2003 and was savagely and barbarically beaten to death by Islamic regime officials. News agencies reported that Ms. Kazemi's body was buried on July 23, 2003, in Shiraz, Iran, contrary to the wishes of her family, and repeated formal requests from the Canadian government.

http://activistchat.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=5491

In Memory of Ms. Atefe Rajabi

The murderous mullahs of Iran have executed another minor.
The Heartbreaking And Enraging Story of a 16 Year Old Girl Executed by the Islamist Mafia Mullah Dictatorship on Sunday, August 15, 2004 in the town of Neka, Iran. Please Visit : http://activistchat.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=3661

In Memory of Ms. Parvaneh Forouhar
7 years ago, the knife of islamic republic Mafia silenced the voices of two of Iran’s noble children: "
Dariush and Parvaneh Forouhar. But, it did not silence the aspiration of them for democracy, liberty, justice, and freedom. It not only did not silence, but rejuvenated the voices of Iranians rising to the aspiration of the Frouhars. Knives cut flesh, but cannot cut aspirations. Knives silence individuals, but cannot silence a nation. Knives shorten lives, but prolong resolve of the nation. Those who lowered their knives in the hearts of the Frouhars saw the spill of their blood writing on the soil of our nation: Victory Will Be Ours! The enemies of our country unjustly ruling Iran for two decades are doomed! That’s what that blood said! And that’s what the murderers of islamic republic should take notice of!"
To know more about Ms. Parvaneh Forouhar please visit: http://www.forouharha.com/

In Memory of Princess Leila Pahlavi
Another victim of Islamist Regime:
Visit : http://www.farahpahlavi.org/leila-passing.html


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PostPosted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 6:41 pm    Post subject: Iran arrests International Women’s Day marchers Reply with quote



Ramin Etebar,MD wrote:
Warning: An Eye For An Eye, And A Tooth For A Tooth

March 10, 2006

“Have you heard that it was said,'An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.” Mattew “5:38?
For the past 27 years the while we have been turning the other cheek advocating civil disobedience and nonviolent movements,
The Iranian mullahs have been upping their ante on murder, maiming, raping, jailing, torturing, assassinating, and executing the dissidents.
2 days ago, on March 8, 2006 Iranian police and plainclothes Basiji thugs charged a peaceful assembly of women’s rights activists in Tehran and beat hundreds of women and men who had gathered to commemorate International Women’s Day. The Islamic barbarians even assaulted the elderly famous Iranian poet Simin
Behbahani with an electric shocking baton as well as punching and kicking her!

Last January about 1300 members of the Syndicate of the Workers of Tehran and Suburbs Vahed Bus Company were arrested. Hundreds of drivers and their wives and even children were transferred to the Evin Prison where the jail and judiciary officials even beat-up one of bus driver’s two year old daughter. To crush the strike, the security forces used tear gas, batons and the threat to shoot the strikers. In each area where 600 to 700 workers were expected to report to work about 1500 security forces were present. Police raided the homes of the syndicate members and the majority of the members of the board of the union were
taken into custody. The Iranian government and the city officials brought additional buses and drivers to prevent the spread of the strike. The attempted strike was brutally oppressed by the government forces and the security guards of the public bus company.
In the 2005 US Dept. of State country report on human right referencing the UN General Assembly resolution on December 16, the following human rights problems were reported:
http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61688.htm
• significant restriction of the right of citizens to change their government
• summary executions, including of minors
• disappearances
• torture and severe punishments such as amputations and flogging
• violence by vigilante groups with ties to the government
• poor prison conditions
• arbitrary arrest and detention, including prolonged solitary confinement
• lack of judicial independence
• lack of fair public trials, including lack of due process and access to counsel
• political prisoners and detainees
• excessive government violence in Kurdish areas
• substantial increase in violence from unknown groups in an Arab region of the country
• severe restrictions on civil liberties--speech, press, assembly, association, movement, and privacy
• severe restrictions on freedom of religion
• official corruption
• lack of government transparency
• violence and legal and societal discrimination against women, ethnic and religious minorities, and homosexuals
• trafficking in persons
• incitement to anti-Semitism
• severe restriction of workers' rights, including freedom of association and the right to organize and bargain collectively
• child labor
In a country that not even a completely peaceful gathering with no political overtones or slogans or a simple labor dispute is so brutally suppressed,
how could we continue advocating nonviolent political action?
This is a word to the Islamic hooligans: that the Iranian peoples’ patience is running out; if this trend continues we will resort to an eye for an eye and
a tooth for a tooth option.
A word of advice to the Iranian law enforcement officers: remember the aftermath of the 1979 revolution, remember how many innocent police officers
and security agents were either executed or killed by the people; Your mullah masters’ days are over, your turn will come! People will avenge, the good
will also pay the price for the crimes of the bad! You are paid by the people not the mullahs to serve and protect. Your job description does not include
murder, maiming, raping, jailing, torturing, assassinating, and executing the dissidents. Stop!

Ramin Etebar, M.D.


Human Rights Watch wrote:

Iran: Police Attack Women's Day Celebration

March 09, 2006
Human Rights Watch
Human Rights News
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2006/03/09/iran12832.htm

Iranian police and plainclothes agents yesterday charged a peaceful assembly of women’s rights activists in Tehran and beat hundreds of women and men who had gathered to commemorate International Women’s Day, Human Rights Watch said today.

The attack took place shortly after participants in the celebration assembled at Tehran’s Daneshjoo Park at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, March 8.

“The Iranian authorities marked International Women’s Day by attacking hundreds of people who had peacefully assembled to honor women’s rights,” said Joe Stork, deputy Middle East director at Human Rights Watch. “Once again, Iran’s government has signaled that it is ready to use violence to suppress peaceful public assembly of any sort.”

Eyewitnesses told Human Rights Watch that plainclothes agents, anti-riot police and Revolutionary Guards surrounded the park where hundreds of activists gathered to mark International Women’s Day.

“This was a completely peaceful gathering with no political overtones or slogans,” one participant told Human Rights Watch. “We just held up signs in solidarity with the international women’s rights movement.”

Within minutes, after agents photographed and videotaped the gathering, the police told the crowd to disperse. In response, the participants staged a sit-in and started to sing the anthem of the women’s rights movement, one participant told Human Rights Watch.

The security forces then dumped cans of garbage on the heads of women who were seated before charging into the group and beating them with batons to compel them to leave the park.

“As we started to run away and seek shelter, they followed us and continued to beat us. I was beaten several times on my arm, below the waist, and on my wrist,” an activist said.

The commander of security forces at the scene, Ghodratollah Mahmoudi, told the Iranian Labor News Agency that “this gathering was held without an official permit. The response by the security forces prevented the gathering to take on a political dimension.”

Among those present at the gathering was Simin Behbahani, a renowned Iranian poet. According to an eyewitness, “Behbahani was beaten with a baton, and when people protested that she is in her 70s and she can barely see, the security officer kicked her several times and continued to hit her with his baton.”

The security forces also took several foreign journalists into custody and confiscated their photographic equipment and video footage before releasing them.

On the previous day, March 7, the Iranian interior ministry summoned several women’s rights activists and warned them to cancel the gathering. The activists responded that the event is an annual celebration by many women’s rights groups and that they were not organizing the event.

The attack on women’s rights activists highlights the Iranian government’s consistent policy of suppressing freedom of association and assembly, Human Rights Watch said.

Since Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took office in August, security forces have repeatedly resorted to violence to suppress peaceful gatherings. In January, security forces in Tehran attacked and arrested hundreds of striking bus drivers who were protesting working conditions.

In February, security forces in the city of Qom used excessive force and tear gas to detain hundreds of Sufi followers who had gathered in front of their house of worship to prevent its destruction by the authorities.


Iran Focus wrote:

Iran opposition TV airs footage of women’s demo in Tehran
Sat. 11 Mar 2006
Iran Focus
http://www.iranfocus.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=6205

London, Mar. 11 – An Iranian opposition satellite channel aired on Saturday footage of a demonstration in Tehran by hundreds of women celebrating International Women’s Day, and a brutal raid by Iran’s security forces to break up the rally.

The rally took place on Wednesday afternoon in Tehran’s Laleh Park. Numerous women were beaten up by truncheon-wielding policemen and dozens were arrested as they resisted attempts by security agents to disperse the demonstrators.

The television, Simaye Azadi -- “Vision of Freedom” in Persian – said the film was taken by women activists in Tehran.

Click here to view the film

http://www.iranfocus.com/uploads/Videos/women-demo-iran.wmv


cyrus wrote:
US Rights Report Critical of Arab Allies, Iran, China, Zimbabwe

http://www.voanews.com/english/2006-03-08-voa64.cfm


By David Gollust
Washington
08 March 2006

The State Department's annual report on human rights conditions worldwide, issued Wednesday, includes criticism of China, North Korea, Iran and some of the United States' Arab allies including Iraq.


Condoleezza Rice

The report was introduced at a news conference by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who said the United States' promotion of human rights and democracy is in keeping with its most cherished principles, and is helping build a more peaceful world.

"How a country treats its own people is a strong indication of how it will behave toward its neighbors. The growing demand for democratic governance reflects a recognition that the best guarantor of human rights is a thriving democracy with transparent, accountable institutions of government, equal rights under the rule of law, a robust civil society, political pluralism and independent media," she said.


It said the Iranian government's already poor record on human rights and democracy worsened in 2005, during which serious abuses occurred, including summary executions and severe punishments including amputations and floggings.


Quote:
Iranian Police Disrupt Women's Day Demonstration

http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2006/3/7231c696-7e5f-4b4d-96a9-765e15f4f12f.html

March 8, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- A gathering by a group of women's-rights activists in Tehran to mark the International Women's day was disrupted today by the police, according to Radio Farda.


One of those activists, who did not want to be named, told Radio Farda that many women were beaten up by police forces in front of a park in the Iranian capital where they wanted to have a ceremony and demand gender equality.

"Unfortunately the police attacked [us], they beat up violently especially the women, including Mrs. Simin Behbahani [a prominent Iranian poet]; they didn't even respect her age," the activist said. "They dispersed everyone, many of the boys were also beaten up, and some of them were arrested."

Activists had come to hear speeches against discrimination against women. Some were reportedly carrying banners with slogans in favor of women's rights and gender equality.

(with additional reporting by Azima)

Female protesters in mid-2005 (AFP)


Azarmehr Weblog wrote:


Elderly Female Iranian Writer Beaten up at Rally in Tehran

March 09, 2006
Azarmehr Weblog
Potkin Azarmehr

http://azarmehr.blogspot.com/2006/03/elderly-female-iranian-writer-beaten.html

Simin Behbehani, one of Iran's greatest contemporary poets and writers was amongst those women who were beaten up in yesterday's rally in Tehran. "They were armed with guns, electric batons and other things. They attacked the young women, showing no respect or mercy, they punched and kicked us, it was mayhem and I don't even know why it happened. The few hundred women had gathered in the corner of the student park listening to a speech, in a peaceful manner. They would have left the scene shortly after, had they been left alone.

All of a sudden these policemen raided the park and dispersed us, however some of the women started a small demonstration and walked around the park and started singing, it was a beautiful scene; this did not last too long and police quickly dispersed them also by kicking them, using batons, etc.
The crowd were scattered in the Vali-asr and Jomhoori avenue with the police in the middle trying to seperate them.

I am not worried about myself, I am very upset however for the fellow young Iranians in my country who justified their animal-like behaviour by wearing police uniforms. Although I don't want to blame them all, there were a few of them who acted humanely, but most of them did not think before they acted.
It's regrettable that these young men behaved in such a savage way, we women will not be stopped by such attacks"


cyrus wrote:
Iranian women attend a rally at Laleh park in the center of Tehran



http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/060308/photos_pl_afp/fdafa2ee0ab1abe5efadfa5e954d0e0e

Iranian women attend a rally at Laleh park in the center of Tehran, 2004. The United States blasted China and Iran for alleged gross human rights violations, branding them among the "most systematic" rights violators in an annual rights report.(AFP/File/Henghameh Fahimi)


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iranfocus wrote:
Iran arrests International Women’s Day marchers
Wed. 08 Mar 2006
Iran Focus


http://www.iranfocus.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=6148



Tehran, Iran, Mar. 08 – Hundreds of women gathered Wednesday afternoon in Tehran’s Laleh Park and took part in a demonstration against the Iranian government on the occasion of International Women’s Day, according to eye-witnesses.

The security forces, which had been on alert to enforce a ban on all gatherings, quickly moved in and within minutes arrested several dozen women, an eye-witness told Iran Focus.

Several women were arrested while taking photographs or filming the demonstration.

The female protestors, who were joined by a number of men supporting their cause, continued to resist attempts by the security agents and the undercover security forces, according to the report.

Many carried placards reading “Women demand freedom and equality” and “End censorship”.

Bystanders came to the aid of the women, some of whom were badly beaten by the agents of the security forces.


cyrus wrote:
Shame On UN If They Don't Punish Islamist Regime



http://www.radiofarda.com/iran_article/2006/3/13dad08f-257d-4474-81c2-f1112bf7694e.html



نیروهای انتظامی با حمله به تجمع کنندگان در پارک لاله و ضرب و شتم زنان، مانع از برگزاری بزرگداشت روز جهانی زن شدند
به مناسبت روز جهانی زن، گروهی از زنان تهرانی در پارک لاله گرد آمده بودند که مانند تجمع در پارک دانشجو با حمله و ضرب و شتم نیروهای امنیتی و پلیس جمهوری اسلامی خاتمه یافت. یک دانشجوی شرکت کننده در تجمع زنان و دختران در مقابل پارک لاله در مصاحبه با رادیو فردا می گوید: پس از اخطارهای مکرر نیروی انتظامی برای متفرق کردن زنان، تجمع کنندگان به راهپیمایی به دور پارک پرداختند و شروع به خواندن سرودهای ای ایران و یار دبستانی کردند که نیروهای انتظامی به پشتیبانی نیروهای امنیتی لباس شخصی به تجمع کنندگان حمله ور شدند و به طور وحشیانه ای دختران و زنان را مورد ضرب و شتم قرار دادند.
مسعود ملك (rm) صدا | (wma) صدا [ 2:34 mins ]


به مناسبت روز جهانی زن، گروهی از زنان تهرانی هم در پارک لاله گرد آمده بودند. با این تجمع نیز برخورد مشابهی نظیر تجمع پارک دانشجو شد. در مصاحبه با رادیو فردا یک دانشجوی شرکت کننده در تجمع زنان و دختران در مقابل پارک لاله از چگونگی برخورد نیروهای اطلاعاتی و انتظامی جمهوری اسلامی با زنان حاضر در محل می گوید.
یک دانشجوی شرکت کننده در تجمع: از ساعت چهار جمعیت را پراکنده می کردند نیروهای انتظامی و ماموران اطلاعاتی که لباس شخصی بودند. ساعت چهار و نیم جمعیت خانم ها حدود 40 نفر شد که مجددا نیروی انتظامی آمد تذکر داد شما باید پراکنده شوید. خانم ها پراکنده نشدند و ایستادند. از زنان فیلم گرفتند، عکس گرفتند که بترسانند جمعیت را. یکی از خانم ها را هم دستگیر کردند که داشت فیلم و عکس از تجمع می گرفت و ما به حمایت او رفتیم اعتراض کردیم و ایشان را از دست نیروی انتظامی کشیدیم بیرون. به ما گفتند اگر می خواهید دستگیر نشوید، باید پراکنده شوید. ما شروع کردیم به راهپیمایی تا دور پارک را بزنیم. نیروی انتظامی هم از پشت سر دنبال می کردند ما را و می گفتند باید حتما پراکنده شوید. ما هم با هم بودیم و سرود ای ایران و یار دبستانی را دست به دست هم خواندند خانم ها. یکی از آقایانی را که همراه خانم ها می آمد دستگیر کردند و بردند که ما اعتراض کردیم برای نجات او، حمله کردند و همه خانم ها را زدند و حتی عده ای را در جوب انداختند و اجبارا جمعیت متفرق شدند، زیرا زیر دست و پا فقط داشتیم کتک می خوردیم.

مسعود ملک (رادیو فردا): چه تعداد نیروهای انتظامی و اطلاعاتی در آن محل حاضر بودند؟

یک دانشجوی شرکت کننده در تجمع: نیروهای اطلاعاتی خیلی زیاد بودند و دورتادور ما تمام نیروهای اطلاعاتی حضور داشتند. خودشان جلو نمی آمدند و فقط نیروی انتظامی را می فرستادند جلو. ماموران نیروی انتظامی هم از تعداد خانم ها بیشتر بودند که واقعا وحشیانه زنان را زدند.



cyrus wrote:
Radio Farda Interview With Women Activist and Famous Writer



http://www.radiofarda.com/iran_article/2006/3/9dbb8cce-bf10-4522-82a9-3915bfc13373.html


گزارش‌هاي ايران
تجمع زنان در پارک دانشجو با یورش نیروهای انتظامی بر هم خورد: مصاحبه با سیمین بهبهانی
به مناسبت روز جهانی زن عصر چهارشنبه زنان در پارک دانشجو در تهران تجمعی داشتند که با برخورد شدید نیروهای انتظامی مواجه شد. سیمین بهبهانی شاعر پرآوازه ایران در میان جمع زنان بود و خود نیز مورد ضرب و شتم پلیس قرار گرفت. خانم بهبهانی در مصاحبه با رادیو فردا می گوید: من بیشتر از آنچه که برای خودم نگران باشم، متاسفم برای جوانان کشورم که لباس پلیس تنشان بود و امروز این وحشیگری را از آنها دیدم؛ این خانم ها حدود 300 الی 400 نفر در یک گوشه از پارک ایستاده بودند و داشتند بیانیه شان را می خواندند در کمال آرامش و یک ساعت بیشتر هم وقت نمی خواستند، ولی یک دفعه ریختند و خانم ها را با باتوم و تهدید به اسلحه و غیره متفرق کردند، ولی بعد از آن یک دمونستراسیون بسیار زیبا از خانم ها راه افتاد و در صف های چهار پنج نفری پشت سر هم دور پارک و قسمتی از خیابان را دور زدند و سرودخوانان می رفتند، ولی باز اینها تاب نیاوردند و افتادند وسط این جمعیت و ضرب و شتم.
نازي عظيما (rm) صدا | (wma) صدا [ 5:33 mins ]


به مناسبت روز جهانی زن عصر چهارشنبه زنان در پارک دانشجو در تهران تجمعی داشتند که با برخورد شدید نیروهای انتظامی مواجه شد. بنا بر گزارش ها نیروهای لباس شخصی نیز در میان نیروهای انتظامی دیده می شدند. ضرب و شتم زنان سبب شماری از عابران نیز به آنها بپیوندند، اما آن گروه از عابران که از ماجرا بی خبر بودند، در پاسخ به سئوال های خود از پلیس این جواب را می شنیدند که نیروی انتظامی در حال پاکسازی توزیع کنندگان ترقه های چهارشنبه سوری است. خانم سیمین بهبهانی شاعر پرآوازه ایران در میان جمع زنان در پارک دانشجو بود و خود نیز مورد ضرب و شتم پلیس قرار گرفت. خانم بهبهانی در مصاحبه با رادیو فردا درباره آنچه که در پارک دانشجو گذشت، می گوید:
سیمین بهبهانی: من بیشتر از آنچه که برای خودم متاسف باشم یا نگران باشم، متاسفم برای جوانان کشورم که لباس پلیس تنشان بود و امروز این وحشیگری را من از آنها دیدم. البته همه را محکوم نمی کنم، در میان آنها بسیار انسان های خوبی هم دیدم، ولی بسیاری از آنها هم بودند که باید در رفتار خودشان تجدیدنظر کنند. حیف از جوانی آنها که با اینطور رفتار وحشیانه خدشه دار شود و ما زن ها بیدی نیستیم که با این بادها بلرزیم.

نازی عظیما (رادیو فردا): مگر این جوانان هایی که از آنها اسم بردید، چه رفتاری از خودشان نشان دادند.

سیمین بهبهانی: مجهز بودند به اسلحه، باتوم های برقی، لگد و مشت و چیزهای دیگر و با کمال خشونت و بی احترامی با خانم ها حرف زدن، با زن ها به طور خیلی خشن رفتار کردن، دخترهای جوان را زیر مشت و لگد گرفتن. صدای فریاد بلند شده بود و من نمی دانم این رفتار چرا انجام گرفت. برای این که این خانم ها در یک گوشه از پارک دانشجو ایستاده بودند در حدود 300 الی 400 نفر و داشتند بیانیه شان را می خواندند در کمال آرامش و به هیچ جایی هم برنمی خورد و یک ساعت بیشتر هم وقت نمی خواستند و متفرق می شدند. ولی یک دفعه اینها ریختند و خانم ها را با باتوم و تهدید به اسلحه و غیره متفرق کردند، ولی بعد از آن یک دمونستراسیون بسیار زیبا از خانم ها راه افتاد و از جایشان که حرکت کردند که بروند، در صف های چهار پنج نفری پشت سر هم تمام دور پارک دانشجو و قسمتی از خیابان را دور زدند و یک نمایش زیبایی بود و سرودخوانان می رفتند، ولی باز اینها تاب نیاوردند و افتادند وسط این جمعیت و متفرق کردند و با هتک حرمت و زدن و باتوم و برقی و جفتک انداختن و لگد زدن جمعیت را پراکنده کردند و در خیابان ولیعصر و جمهوری پر شده بود از خانم ها و اینها هم وسط جمعیت با لباس های پلیس. این لباس واقعا حرمت دارد، ولی حرمت این لباس را امروز اینها از بین بردند. این را هم بگویم که عده کمی از افسران ارشد بسیار مودب بودند و رفتار خوبی داشتند.

ن . ع: شما حالتان الان چطور است؟

سیمین بهبهانی: حال من بسیار بسیار خوب است و درست است که ممکن است بید باشم، ولی از این بادها نمی لرزم.

ن . ع: شما فکر می کنید همچین اقدامی باعث می شود زهر چشمی گرفته شود یا رعب و وحشتی ایجاد کند در زنان؟

سیمین بهبهانی: ابدا، ابدا فکر نمی کنم. من معتقدم جرات زنان بیشتر می شود، زیرا مستوجب این رفتار نبودند امروز. من منصفانه دارم قضاوت می کنم. من خود شاعد عینی بودم و درست نبود که با زنان اینطور رفتار شود.

ن . ع: شما با برخی از این افراد پلیس که می گویید معقول تر بودند، صحبت هم کردید؟

سیمین بهبهانی: بله با یکی هم صحبت کردم. درجه ارشدیت داشت. بسیار انسان خوبی بود و فقط از من خواهش کرد که آرامشم را حفظ کنم و محل را ترک کنم و بسیار مودب بود.

ن . ع: توضیح نداد یا شما نپرسیدید که چرا همچین برخوردی می کنند؟

سیمین بهبهانی: برای من مشخص بود، لابد می خواستند قدرتی نشان دهند به یک عده زن که فقط خواهان حقوق برابر هستند و خواهان زندگی بهتر برای خودشان هستند.


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PostPosted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 6:47 pm    Post subject: Iran: International women's day marked by protest gatherings Reply with quote

Iran: International women's day marked by protest gatherings
Wednesday, 08 March 2006

http://www.ncr-iran.org/content/view/1124/1/

NCRI – The International Women's Day was marked by protest gatherings in two major parks in central Tehran today.

Women chanted "freedom, freedom" in Daneshjou and Laleh park gatherings despite harsh measures imposed by the regime's security forces. To prevent women to assemble, the suppressive forces surrounded the area forcing people to disperse.


According to eye witnesses, the plain clothes agents accompanied the security forces in their attacks against women in Daneshjou park but failed to prevent women gathering and they continued with their protest.

Protestors held banners which read: "Iranian women want freedom," "end repression and censorship." A woman was arrested while taking picture from security forces' attack on women.

Women sang national songs on their way out of the park at the end of their protest gathering.

Similar moves were reported from across the country and women condemned the reign of repression, executions and stoning in Iran.




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PostPosted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 6:50 pm    Post subject: Iranian women's rights severely restricted Reply with quote

Iranian women's rights severely restricted
By Xin Li
The Washington Times
Published March 8, 2006
http://www.wpherald.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20060308-101006-2668r

WASHINGTON -- Despite International Women's Day celebrations today, women in Iran still struggle for basic rights. The country's conservative authorities forbid women from simple activities such as watching the World Cup qualifying soccer game live in a stadium.

More prominent are restrictions on their legal and civil rights.


Women in Iran can inherit only half as much of their parents' wealth as their brothers.

Their husbands can marry more than one woman, and automatically get custody of children after a divorce. Women can be jailed or hanged for defying the dress code, and they can be stoned to death for adultery.

Since the 1979 overthrow of the Shah, the fundamentalist governments dominated by clerics have stressed the traditional role of women and restricted their civil rights and participation in political activities.

"The changes of women's conditions are very minor, only about surface things. But the limitations on basic rights and the legislation infrastructure haven't been changed at all," said Mahnaz Afkhami, president of Women's Learning Partnership for Rights, Development and Peace, a nongovernmental organization based in Washington.

Iranian women are better-educated and more politically sophisticated than many of their Muslim neighbors. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization reports that the literacy rate of Iranian women is 70 percent, compared with an average 46.2 percent in the Middle East.

A large number of Iranian women hold professional jobs in journalism, medicine or law, or become human-rights activists. Up to 70 percent of university students in Iran are female, said Swanee Hunt, director of the Women and Public Policy Program at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.

Squelched opportunities

Women's active engagement in society, however, has been met with increasing oppression from the regime.

In June, Iran's Guardian Council, a conservative constitutional watchdog, barred all 81 female presidential candidates on the basis of their sex. Women are beaten or jailed for wearing clothes or makeup regarded as insufficiently modest, the State Department said in a 2004 human-rights report.

Islamic countries have various interpretations of religious law, resulting in different levels of sex disparities, but the authority of Islamic law cannot be changed easily. Eleven countries have Islam as a source of legislation, and 21 others have religious clauses in their laws, said Mohamed Mattar, a law professor at Johns Hopkins University.

Much has changed within the Islamic framework, Mr. Mattar said. "There might be some gender inequalities by international-rights standard, but it's up to interpretation. You can interpret it in a way to protect women's rights."

The marriageable age for Iranian women can be a barometer of progress toward equal rights.

The pro-Western Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, instituted the Family Protection Law in 1967 that raised the marriageable age of women to 18.

Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini overthrew the Shah in 1979, ending more than 2,500 years of Persian monarchy. He canceled the law, announced that women no longer could be judges, and segregated beaches and sports by sex. The marriageable age was reduced to 9.

In 1997, massive support from women made Mohammed Khatami, a moderate clergyman and reformist, president, said Azar Nafisi, a writer and literary scholar at Johns Hopkins University.

Reforms that were carried out included raising the marriageable age of girls to 13 and referring divorces to the court system. But Mr. Khatami was unable to challenge the religious power, and his reforms fell short of the expectations of many Iranians and encountered a setback with the presidential election victory of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad last year.

Politically active

Mr. Ahmadinejad proposed to separate the sexes in universities and public places, the local press reported. In January, the government shut down a newspaper that ran a picture of women dressed in insufficiently Islamic garments and closed a women's publication.

"The change of regimes, from Khomeini to Khatami or Ahmadinejad, brought differences only on social and cultural ramifications. The infrastructural legislation hasn't changed at all," Mrs. Afkhami said.

Sex segregation, however, is partly responsible for the high education rate of women in Iran. Mrs. Afkhami said the need to have professional women in all segregated fields increased female university enrollments.

Iranian women gained constitutional recognition of equal rights in 1906, and the right to vote in 1962. Since then, the massive movements made them "active, articulate and very capable" of political involvement, Mrs. Afkhami said. "Their consciousness and eagerness for equal rights can hardly be pushed back."

The reversal of basic rights in 1979 increased the political activity of Iranian women.

Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi lost her job as Iran's first female judge after the revolution, because conservative clerics insisted that Islam forbids the judgments of women. She turned to the practice of law, defending liberal and dissident causes in the courts.

The political scene, however, remains dominated by men. Only 0.1 percent of ministry-level jobs and 4.1 percent of parliament seats are held by women, the U.N. Development Program reported.

"Women are most negatively affected by the fundamentalist regime, and they are most eager for social and cultural changes," Mrs. Afkhami said. "They are the most important population to bring changes to Iran and to increase democracy in the country."

Demand for U.S. efforts

Although the U.S. State Department has sponsored programs on women's civil and political rights in neighboring Iraq and Afghanistan, similar efforts are absent in Iran.

Sanctions prevented U.S.-based nongovernmental organizations from engaging with Iran's civil groups. Agencies such as the International Republican Institute and the National Democracy Institute, which specialize in promoting democracy in foreign countries, do not operate in Iran.

Meanwhile, the Iranian government's hostility toward nongovernmental organizations, though briefly interrupted by Mr. Khatami's efforts to liberalize society, has largely barred international activities in Iran.

"The U.S. should give voice to what's happening in Iran and cultivate more people-to-people exchange," Mrs. Nafisi said. "When people take part, the change is much more powerful than working from outside."

Mrs. Nafisi said the international community should promote in Iran the same nonviolent democratic changes that succeeded in South Africa and Eastern Europe.

During the nuclear stalemate, the United States is focusing on civilians in Iran. At a congressional hearing in February, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice pledged $75 million to empower Iranian civil movements. Without spelling out who would receive the money, Miss Rice said it would be allocated to opposition parties, free press, the Internet and international exchange.

"A portion of this funding should be directed toward efforts to break down barriers to women's participation," Ms. Hunt said.

"If the United States is serious about promoting democracy in the Middle East, it must put women's rights at the center of any dialogue," she added.
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 6:53 pm    Post subject: Live From Iran: Women Protest for Democracy Reply with quote

Live From Iran: Women Protest for Democracy

3/6/2006 2:46:00 PM
http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=61884

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To: Assignment Desk, Daybook Editor

Contact: Shirin Nariman of Global Coalition Against Fundamentalism, 703-856-2565 or press@gcaf-usa.org; Web: http://www.gcaf-usa.org

News Advisory:

-- In solidarity with the brave women of Iran on International Women's day

-- A century of Struggle for women's rights and democracy

On Wednesday, March 8th, the Global Coalition Against Fundamentalism will host a panel discussion at the Murrow Room of the National Press Club, in solidarity with Iranian women which will be gathering in "Laleh Park" in Tehran despite all limitations imposed by the regime.

We are very proud to have a representative of women's coalition responsible for organizing the Laleh Park protest, provide a full report of their protest held on that same day via conference call from Iran.

Iranian women across Iran have called for massive public gatherings to demand their basic and fundamental rights which have been denied to them for the past 27 years. In the past quarter of a century Iranian women have been the main victims of the fundamentalist regime ruling Iran and women's political and social plight has been adversely affected by this phenomenon.

Women of Iran have taken the forefront in the fight against the fundamentalist regime ruling Iran as they strongly believe the struggle for gender equality and emancipation cannot be separated from the fight against fundamentalism.

As Iranian human rights advocates and political activists in exile, we stand in solidarity with the brave women and men in Iran, which risk their lives to denounce the theocratic dictatorship ruling Iran.

The panel will discuss the current situation of women in Iran, their plight and their role, there will also be reports made available to the public from within Iran. Panelist will also address the current solutions on the table in regards to the Iran dilemma and the role of Iranian women in the Iranian Resistance.

Date: Wednesday, March 8

Time: 2:30 p.m. EST

Place: Murrow Room, The National Press Club, 529 14th Street NW, Washington, DC 20045

http://www.usnewswire.com/
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 6:57 pm    Post subject: Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2005 Reply with quote

Iran

Country Reports on Human Rights Practices - 2005


Released by the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor
March 8, 2006



The Islamic Republic of Iran,* with a population of approximately 68 million, is a constitutional, theocratic republic in which Shi'a Muslim clergy dominate the key power structures. Article four of the constitution states that "All laws and regulations?shall be based on Islamic principles." Government legitimacy is based on the twin pillars of popular sovereignty (Article Six) and the rule of the Supreme Jurisconsulate (Article Five).

The supreme leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, dominated a tricameral division of power among legislative, executive, and judicial branches. He is not directly elected but chosen by an elected body of religious leaders. Khamenei directly controlled the armed forces and exercised indirect control over the internal security forces, the judiciary, and other key institutions. Reformist President Mohammad Khatami headed the executive branch until August when conservative Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took office. Ahmadinejad won the presidency in June in an election widely viewed as neither free nor fair.


An unelected 12-member council of guardians reviewed all legislation passed by the majles for adherence to Islamic and constitutional principles and also screened presidential and majles candidates for eligibility. Prior to the June presidential elections, the guardian council excluded all but 8 candidates of the 1,014 who registered.


The government's poor human rights record worsened, and it continued to commit numerous, serious abuses. On December 16, the UN General Assembly passed a resolution expressing detailed, serious concern over the country's human rights problems.


In preparation for the June presidential elections, there was intense political struggle between a broad popular movement favoring greater liberalization of human rights and the economy, and hard-line elements within government and society that viewed such reforms as a threat to the Islamic Republic. Reformists and hard-liners within the government engaged in divisive internal debates.


The following human rights problems were reported:


significant restriction of the right of citizens to change their government
summary executions, including of minors
disappearances
torture and severe punishments such as amputations and flogging
violence by vigilante groups with ties to the government
poor prison conditions
arbitrary arrest and detention, including prolonged solitary confinement
lack of judicial independence
lack of fair public trials, including lack of due process and access to counsel
political prisoners and detainees
excessive government violence in Kurdish areas
substantial increase in violence from unknown groups in an Arab region of the country
severe restrictions on civil liberties--speech, press, assembly, association, movement, and privacy
severe restrictions on freedom of religion
official corruption
lack of government transparency
violence and legal and societal discrimination against women, ethnic and religious minorities, and homosexuals
trafficking in persons
incitement to anti-Semitism
severe restriction of workers' rights, including freedom of association and the right to organize and bargain collectively
child labor

For Complete Report Visit :
http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61688.htm
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 08, 2006 10:12 pm    Post subject: Iranian Police Disrupt Women's Day Demonstration Reply with quote

Iranian Police Disrupt Women's Day Demonstration

http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2006/3/7231c696-7e5f-4b4d-96a9-765e15f4f12f.html

March 8, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- A gathering by a group of women's-rights activists in Tehran to mark the International Women's day was disrupted today by the police, according to Radio Farda.


One of those activists, who did not want to be named, told Radio Farda that many women were beaten up by police forces in front of a park in the Iranian capital where they wanted to have a ceremony and demand gender equality.

"Unfortunately the police attacked [us], they beat up violently especially the women, including Mrs. Simin Behbahani [a prominent Iranian poet]; they didn't even respect her age," the activist said. "They dispersed everyone, many of the boys were also beaten up, and some of them were arrested."

Activists had come to hear speeches against discrimination against women. Some were reportedly carrying banners with slogans in favor of women's rights and gender equality.

(with additional reporting by Azima)

Female protesters in mid-2005 (AFP)
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Gang rape victim leads thousands at Women's Day rally
March 8, 2006



http://metimes.com/articles/normal.php?StoryID=20060308-064140-3727r

WOMEN’S DAY: Pakistani peace activists hold candles on the eve of International Women's Day in Multan, Pakistan, on March 7.
(REUTERS)

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MULTAN, Pakistan -- Around 3,000 people on Wednesday attended a rally led by a Pakistani woman whose gang rape on the orders of a tribal council triggered an international outcry, witnesses said.

The protestors, the vast majority of them women, held placards and banners and cheered Mukhtaran Mai when she appeared on a stage along with a dozen other gang-rape victims to mark International Women's Day.

"I will continue my struggle to end the oppression of women," 33-year-old Mai told the crowd. "I have come here so we can raise our voices together."

Protestors shouted slogans including "Give equal rights to women" and "Treat women with respect".

Local authorities banned them from marching on roads so they held the rally in a park.

"The day will be momentous as it will bring together, for the first time, men and women in an area globally marked for gender discrimination and cruelty toward women," Mai earlier said.

Mai was gang-raped on the orders of a tribal council in a rural village in Punjab province in 2002 as punishment for her brother's alleged affair with a woman from another tribe.

The case and Mai's high-profile quest to bring her rapists to justice attracted extensive international attention, much to the embarrassment of the Pakistani authorities.

Rallies, walks and seminars were held in various Pakistani cities on Wednesday to mark the struggle for women's rights.

In Islamabad the United Nations Population Fund launched a compendium on gender statistics and the ministry of women's development arranged a march to the parliament building.

In Karachi, Pakistan's largest city, the provincial women's development department organized a walk, a seminar and crafts exhibition.

Pakistani newspapers published special supplements and prominently displayed photos depicting the plight of women in the South Asian Islamic republic.

Last June Pakistan's Supreme Court ordered 13 men linked to Mai's case to be rearrested and suspended their acquittals by lower courts.

The same month, President Pervez Musharraf barred Mai from traveling to the United States to address a human rights group, saying that the visit would damage the country's image overseas. The ban was later rescinded after intense criticism from, among others, US officials.

Musharraf also came under fire in September when he suggested to a US newspaper that some women viewed being raped as a way to get a foreign visa.

About 4,000 people, mostly women, have been killed in conservative rural areas of Pakistan in recent years in the name of protecting family honor. Many others have been raped or burned with acid under codes of tribal justice. Musharraf early this year signed into law a bill introducing the death penalty for honor killings.
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 13, 2006 6:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

NITV airs footages of women?s demo in Tehran

SMCCDI (Information Service)
March 11, 2006

The NITV satellite channel broadcasted, on Friday morning,
footages of a demonstration, held in Tehran, by hundreds of
women who were celebrating the "International Women's Day",
and a brutal raid by Islamic regime's security agents to
break up the rally. The broadcast of the footages, by the
popular NITV, has shocked many non-political Iranians who
have been astonished by the degree of the brutality used,
by Islamists, against helpless women.

The gathering took place, on Wednesday March 8th, at the
Tehran's Laleh Park where tens of women, including Simin
Behbahani - a famous female poet - were beaten by security
agents.
http://daneshjoo.org/publishers/smccdinews/article_4525.shtml
Dozens of female protesters and their male supporters were
arrested, as, they resisted attempts by the Islamist
Militiamen to disperse the demonstrators. Many of them have
been reported as being transferred to the infamous Evin
Political Jail located in North Tehran.

NITV's satellite programs were interrupted few hours later
and following financial problems that have created great
concerns among many Iranians. Most of them are relying on
this trusted network for a better understanding of the
situation and the coordination of the civil actions and
protest actions against the Islamic republic regime, such
as, at the occasion of the banned "Tchahar-Shanbe Soori
(Fire Fiest) on March 14th.

The network's management hopes to resume its satellite
programming, from Monday, in case of collecting necessary
financial support from individual donors.

NITV continues to broadcast, live, on the Internet
(http://www.pamtv.us), but only 10% of Iranians, living
inside, have access to the Internet. Many sites are blocked
or controlled by the regime's Intelligence.

The footages of the March 8th event were provided, to the
network and other abroad based Iranian TV networks and
opposition websites, by amateurs located inside and who
used the www.zshare.net service on the Internet.

The footages can be seen by downloading them from the
following links:
http://www.zshare.net/video/1-wmv-hjw.html
http://www.zshare.net/video/2-wmv-mf6.html
http://www.zshare.net/video/3-wmv-wwe.html
http://www.zshare.net/video/4-wmv-xwx.html

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PostPosted: Wed Apr 26, 2006 6:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Gender Apartheid Policy Increases in Iran

SMCCDI (Information Service)
April 23, 2006

The Gender Apartheid Policy and repression of Iranian women
has increased following the start, yesterday, of a new
official campaign intended to enforce the observance of the
Islamist mandatory veil in Iran.

Hundreds of fully black veiled and armed female security
agents, qualified as "black crows" by most Iranians, have
been deployed in each of Iran's main cities. Their official
mission has been qualified as a 'suggestive guidance task
intending to make respect the Islamic and moral values' and
'to fight the increasing western decadence'.

While officially they're 'not to use of any force or brutal
manners', never less various reports are contrary to the
official statements made, today, by the Islamic regime's
President and heads of security forces. Reports are stating
about the use of brutality, insults and fines against
hundreds of maverick Iranian females who were seen opposing
the black crows injunctions in several areas of Tehran,
such as, Vali-e-Asr (former Pahlavi), Madar (former
Mohseni) and Tajrish. Several young girls were seen
arrested and transferred to security posts in order to what
has been qualified as 'proper identification'.

In some places maverick Iranian males, offended or
intending to protect their mothers, sisters, female friends
or the victims, from the repressive female agents, were
seen beaten by male security agents who have been deployed
to protect their female colleagues.

It seems that some harsh critics made by some European and
American circles against the discriminatory campaign have
caused the sudden issuance of official statements on the
'peaceful nature of the guidance task'.

Reports of the same type of repressive measures have been
received from some of the provincial cities, such as,
Esfahan, Rasht, Ghom, Mashad or Shiraz where they have
already been applied before its start in the Capital.

In reality, the whole campaign has started following the
quasi-official rally which took place in front of the
Islamic Parliament last week. It took place in order to
offer a so-called legitimate and popular back up for the
discriminatory crackdown on Iranian women and was composed
by dozens of fully dark veiled female agents, as well as,
foreign Islamist females and even what some many Iranians
call as 'veiled governmental prostitutes'. This third
category is used for various purposes by the Islamic
regime, such as, collecting information or approaching
foreign journalists while having a more western look or in
some cases wearing more provocative clothing.

Tens of Iranian women have died and hundreds of other have
been injured, since 1979, for fighting for gender equality
in Iran. Many of them have used mass gatherings to burn
their mandatory veils and to denounce the existing
repression while some naive foreign circles have started to
promote, since 1997, individuals, such as, Shirin Ebadi or
Mehranguiz Kar as defenders of women's rights.

In reality, while thousands of Iranian women were marching
in the streets of Tehran, in 1979, and shouting "No Veil,
No Submission"; Ebadi and Kar were endorsing Rouh-Ollah
Khomeini's backwarded Islamist revolution. Worst, they were
seen as wearing the Islamist veil in sign of such support,
despite having had higher law education and human rights
courses.

For a better understanding of Iranian women's case and
their persistent struggle, check the following links:
http://daneshjoo.org/article/publish/article_3043.shtml
http://daneshjoo.org/article/publish/article_2007.shtml

SMCCDI has always been heavily involved in the genuine
defense of Iranian women's rights and has been a major
factor in denouncing their persistent repression. The
group, which is using its website and independent satellite
TV and radio networks, has always believed that Iranian
women will never obtain their full rights and equality
other than in the frame of a genuine secular regime. Its
work has lead to a better understanding of their situation
by abroad media and NGOs:
http://daneshjoo.org/article/publish/article_1572.shtml
http://daneshjoo.org/article/publish/article_1573.shtml
http://daneshjoo.org/article/publish/article_1573.shtml

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Subject: Rewarding Hostage takers by Greens-Massoumeh Ebtekar (Bilingual)
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 02:17:00 -0700

Finally, and to make sure no terrorist and anti-American is forgotten by world liberals and leftover Marxists, a well known hostage taker is rewarded by green liberals. This person was the translators and spoke person for terrorists who took Americans Hostage by raiding American embassy in Tehran; she was known to the western media by the alias “MARY”:



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PostPosted: Sun Jun 11, 2006 11:36 am    Post subject: A Poet Who 'Never Sold Her Pen or Soul' Reply with quote

A Poet Who 'Never Sold Her Pen or Soul'

June 10, 2006
The Washington Post
Nora Boustany

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/09/AR2006060902025.html

The voice of poet Simin Behbahani rises, soothing the wounds of Iranians betrayed by a revolution that has curtailed their rights and failed to deliver social justice.

To stay alive, you must slay silence . . .

to pay homage to being, you must sing .

At 79, the revered poet has only peripheral vision, but she still writes. To defy the ravages of macular degeneration, she records her verses vertically, down the edge of the paper.

She described an incident in March when riot police approached her during a gathering in Tehran to mark International Women's Day. "Hey, don't hurt this lady. She is Simin Behbahani," a student in the crowd protested. "If you touch her, I will set myself on fire."

His outburst enraged the police. One of the officers lashed Behbahani's right arm and back with a whip and then beat her with a club that emitted electric shocks, she recalled. A passing policeman recognized her, intervened and bundled her into a taxi.

Sitting composedly in the solarium of her niece's home in McLean recently, Behbahani discussed her work and life through an interpreter. She was on her 15th tour of the United States, with speaking events in Washington, New York, Los Angeles and other cities, and will travel on to Canada.

"I have always been drawn to social issues. Even before the eruption of the revolution, while under the shah, I was also suffering," she said, referring to Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who was overthrown in the Islamic revolution of 1979. "There was no democracy in Iran. Even then, we had censorship."

Before the revolution, her poetry dealt with poverty, orphans and corruption, reflecting her concern for the outcast, the marginalized and the neglected. Her recent work has touched on the themes of freedom of expression and the rights of minorities and prisoners.

"I will identify her as the most iconic Iranian poet alive," said Farzaneh M. Milani , director of Studies in Women and Gender at the University of Virginia. "I can really say she has become a cultural hero, and she is treated as such outside and inside her country." Milani, an authority on Behbahani, teaches a course on Iranian female poets.

"She reminds me of T.S. Eliot," Milani said. "She dives deep into her culture and literature, and the product is a truly modern outlook on the role of the individual, concern for democracy and human rights. The form is traditional, but the perspective and poetic persona are quite progressive."

Behbahani is known for her ghazals , sonnet-like love poems distinguishable by their special rhyme scheme and lilting lyrics. Traditionally, the ghazal featured a male poet romancing a woman. Behbahani reversed the roles; in her poems, men are the objects of desire.

"It was not only sensuous but courageous," Milani said of her dedication to the form. "While most of her contemporaries from the '20s and '30s wrote free verse at the height of the modern movement, she stuck to ghazal . Some poets claimed the genre was dead, but she pursued it and took it to new heights."

Roya Hakakian , an Iranian American poet and author, said that when she was growing up in the 1970s, Behbahani was not at all fashionable, eclipsed by the late Forough Farrokhzad and Ahmad Shamlou, the literary giants of that time.

"When the revolution failed to deliver people to democracy and greater freedom, people turned away from modern poetry," Hakakian said. But Behbahani "has remained extremely loyal to the classical concept and has become a symbol of resistance, which is why, 30 years later, she looms so large," she said.

"She has been very fair to tradition and has never sold her pen or soul to any political group or political party. Yet, she is also very political because she has always spoken truth to power. Now some of her poems have become like aphorisms, sayings and proverbs," said Milani, who with Kaveh Safa translated some of Behbahani's poems into English in "A Cup of Sin: Selected Poems."

My country, I will build you again,

if need be, with bricks made from my life.

I will build columns to support your roof,

if need be, with my bones.

Unlike younger intellectuals swept up in the fervor of the early stages of the revolution, Behbahani was suspicious. "I realized changes were not going in the right direction," she said.

She was frightened by the wave of terror that followed, encompassing executions, kangaroo trials and mysterious disappearances of ordinary Iranians. "We had gone the wrong way from the very beginning," she said.

She took a public stand against the tyrannical rule of the ayatollahs and their infringements on freedom of expression. Her work was banned for 10 years after the revolution, and newspapers and magazines frequently published broadsides targeting her.

One night in 1996, while attending a gathering at a German diplomat's home, she was hauled off to jail. "I was slapped around, blindfolded and taken to prison," she recalled. "We were released the next morning. They led us out and dropped us in the middle of the street with our blindfolds still tied."

The Nobel peace laureate Shirin Ebadi , who wrote about the incident in her recently released memoir, "Iran Awakening," described Behbahani as a "kindred spirit" and an inspiration for her own work on the suffering of women and the celebration of their rights.

Ebadi wrote that while she was in jail, she revisited her friend's ghazals, with their images of "monsters soaring the sky in trails of smoke, of plundered mermaids."

Behbahani smiles when asked whether she ever considered leaving Iran.

"I want to live there and die there," she said. "I feel for my people, the language, the ability to write about them through cultural bonds. The creativity in me comes from them, and I want to share it."
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 12, 2006 9:50 am    Post subject: ayam Shahbano Farah Pahlavi & Shahzadeh Reza Pahlavi Reply with quote

Payam Shahbano Farah Pahlavi & Shahzadeh Reza Pahlavi



پیام شهبانو فرح پهلوی
در حمایت از تظاهرات اعتراضی زنان ایران
در میدان 25 شهریور تهران

۲۲ خرداد، ۱۳۸۵

هموطنان عزیزم:

۲۲ خرداد ۱۳۸۴، فصل درخشانی در مبارزهٌ آزادیخواهانه زنان میهن ما بشمار می رود. در این روز، هزاران زن ایرانی در اعتراض به قوانین قرون وسطائی و سیاست های زن ستیز رژیم حاکم، در برابر درب بزرگ دانشگاه تهران، اجتماع کرده و خواست های مشروع، مدنی و عادلانه خود را ابراز نمودند.

۲۲ خرداد، یادآور شهامت مدنی زنان عدالتخواهی است که ۲۷ سال ستم، سنگسار، شلاق، تهدید و توهین رژیم حاکم نتوانست اراده آزادی خواهانه آنان را در هم بکوبد یا سرکوب نماید. این روز، همچنین، تجلٌی همبستگی همه زنان ایران در مبارزه علیه بی عدالتی و پایمال کردن ابتدائي ترین حقوق انسانی ست.

ضمن ستایش از مبارزات زنان میهن و گرامیداشت ۲۲ خرداد، همدلی و همبستگی خود را با تظاهرات اعتراضی زنان ایران ابراز می کنم و با یادآوری یکی از سرود های زنان در ۲۲ خرداد ۱۳۸۴، یقین دارم که:

-«ای زن!

ای حضور زندگی!

به سر رسد زمان بندگی»
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پیام رضا پهلوی

درهمبستگی و حمایت از تجمع زنان ایران


دوشنبه ۲۲ خرداد ماه ۱۳۸۵

هم وطنان عزیزم،

زنان آزادیخواه و عدالتخواه ایران

درتاریخ مبارزات مردم ایران در سال های اخیر، ۲۲ خرداد ۸۴، اهمیت و جلوه ای خاص دارد و اغراق آمیز نیست اگر بگوئیم که ۲۲خرداد به یک "روز تاریخی" بَدَل میشود.

خرداد، یادآور ارادۀ دلیرانۀ زنان میهن ما برای رسیدن به آزادی و احقـاق اساسی ترین حقوق۲۲ طبیعی و انسانـی است: آزادی و حقوقـی کــه در سال هـای اخیـر توسط رژیـم جمهــوری اسلامی، نفی و سرکوب گردیده است.

خرداد، همچنین، تجلی درخشانـی از نافرمانـی مدنـی و نمونـۀ موفقی از ائتــلاف و اتحاد عمل۲۲ جریـان های مختلف زنان بر روی شعــارها و خواست های مشترک است و نشان داد که اگــر این ائتلاف و اتحاد عمل در یک گُستـرۀ ملی و عمومی تحقق یابــد، راه رهایــی ملی در مبــارزه علیه جمهوری اسلامی هموارترخواهد شد.

خـرداد، همبستــگی و حمایت خــویش را از تجمــع اعتراضـی زنــان آزاده و عدالتخواه میهن ما ابراز می دارم. ۲۲با گــرامیــداشت

خداوند نگهدار ایران باد

رضا پهلوی

P.O. Box 566, Falls Church, VA. 22040, U.S.A

Tel: 703-827-0928 Fax: 703-827-9101

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Support for the June 12th Women's protest in Tehran


http://www.iranpressnews.com/source/013803.htm

If you oppose stoning [of women]!
If you oppose compulsory wearing of the hijab!
If you oppose the arrest and persecution of Women!
If you oppose the swooping of whips on women's bodies!
If you oppose any form of patriarchy and male-dominance!
If you oppose all inequality and the medieval rule of the Islamic regime against Women!

Join the Great Women's March to oppose the misogynist rule of the Islamic Republic of Iran on June 12th, 2006.
Place: Haft'eh Teer Square, Tehran
Time: 5 to 6 pm
حمایت از گردهمايی زنان در تهران
اگر مخالف سنگسار هستید!
اگر مخالف حجاب اجباری هستید!
اگر مخالف بازداشت و آزار زنان هستید!
اگر مخالف فرود آمدن شلاق بر پیکر زنان هستید!
اگر مخالف هر شکلی از مرد سالاری هستید!
اگر مخالف کلیه قوانین نابرابر و قرون وسطایی جمهوری اسلامی علیه زنان هستید!

به راهپیمایی بزرگ زنان علیه قوانین زن ستیز جمهوری اسلامی در 22 خرداد 1358 تهران میدان هفت تیر ساعت 5 الی 6 بپیوندید

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PostPosted: Mon Jun 12, 2006 10:40 am    Post subject: Tajamoa e 22 khordad Reply with quote


خانم شیرین عبادی برنده محترم جایزه بی افتخار صلح نوبل، حضرتعلیه کجا تشریف دارید؟ شاید برای سرو گوش آب دادن به علت خود کشی سه زندانی تروریست، به گان تانامو تشریف برده اید؟

شرمتان باد!!!

هاشم

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ما زنان طي يكصد سال گذشته يعني از زمان صدور فرمان مشروطيت و شكل گرفتن قوانين ، براي كسب حقوق برابر و عادلانه تلاش كرده‎ايم. تلاش ما در طول يك قرن گذشته (هم در روش و هم در مضمون) مسالمت‎جويانه، مدني و صلح‎آميز بوده است و از روش‎هاي خشونت‎آميز و شعارهاي احساسي و غيرصنفي پرهيز كرده‎ايم. نمونه روشن و مستند اين روش مدني در 22 خرداد سال گذشته مقابل دانشگاه تهران است. زنان حق طلب ايراني در 22 خرداد سال گذشته با حضور آرام و نمادين و خواندن سرودهاي صلح‎طلبانه و زنانه، مسالمت‎آميز بودن اعتراض خود را ثابت كردند. بنابراين از همه زنان حق طلب و عدالت‎جو و مدافعان حقوق حقه زنان مي‎خواهيم كه امسال نيز همچون سال گذشته از سر دادن شعار بپرهيزند. مسلما حضور نمادين و صلح‎جويانه‎ي ما براي بيان دردها و مشكلات‎مان، كافي خواهد بود. ما با حضور نمادين خود مي‎خواهيم به قانون‎گذاران كشورمان بگوييم كه تحت اين قوانين ناعادلانه، زن ايراني نه تنها در جامعه، در محيط‎هاي شغلي و در امور اجتماعي بلكه حتا در پستوي خانه‎اش هم امنيت ندارد.
از اين‎رو با توجه به آن‎كه هيچ‎ يك از امضاءكنندگان فراخوان تجمع، قصد ايجاد ترافيك و برهم زدن نظم شهر و ايجاد مشكل‎ براي شهروندان را ندارند، از همه‎ي كساني كه مي‎خواهند در تجمع روز 22 خرداد شركت كنند درخواست مي‎كنيم با آرامش و فقط با حضور خود در پارك جنب ميدان هفت تير (واقع در ابتداي خيابان قائم مقام - ساعت 5 الي 6) اعتراض مدني و مسالمت‎آميز خود را نشان دهند.
گروه هماهنگ‎كننده

روزي از آن خود، شهري از آن ما

نويسنده: نوشين احمدي خراساني

”روزهايي هستند كه دوران‎سازند / كلماتي كه دل‎انگيزتر از آوازند“ شعري است كه اين ‎روزها از درونم مي‎جوشد و بر زبانم جاري مي‎شود ـ هرچند اين شعر را مانند اكثر‎ چيزهاي ديگر دنيا بر مبناي سليقه‎ام كمي ـ فقط كمي ـ تغييرش داده‎ام، تغييراتي كه لازمه‎ي ”از آن خود” كردن دنياست. دنيايي كه تا نسازيمش و بر آن نيافزاييم از آن ما نمي‎شود.
ساختن و افزودن، خلق لحظات، لحظاتي كه دوران سازند، همواره به‎عهده‎ي مردمان بوده هرچند ما به عنوان مردم گاهي اين وظيفه را دربست به عهده‎ي دولت ـ مردان و ”بزرگان“ مي‎گذاريم، درحالي‎كه انسان‎هاي ”كوچك“ هم وقتي كنار يكديگر قرار بگيرند مي‎توانند بيافرينند، بيافزايند و بسازند. همان‎طور كه ما ـ 6 هزار نفر ـ روزي را در تاريخ ساختيم و آن را با فوراني از اميد و انتظار بر زمين تفته‎ جلو در اصلي دانشگاه تهران حداقل براي نسل خودمان به ثبت رسانديم.
ما آن روز سر راه مردمان و پاسبانان شهر قدر برافراشتيم و با صداي بلند ادعانامه‎مان را سروديم. ما در آن روز، هراس از پاسبان خيابان را به خودش بخشيديم و رها شديم و لحظه‎اي با ناديده گرفتن‎اش روياهاي‎مان را بر كف خيابان انقلاب ريختيم. ما زنان كه تا پيش از آن روز، اموال زينتي براي معابر عمومي شهر بوديم (اجسامي با سينه و باسن‎ براي چشم‎چراني عده‎اي و درآمدزايي براي عده‎اي ديگر بابت امر و نهي‎هاي لازم)، به انسان‎هايي مبدل شديم داراي دست و زبان و مغز و هويت ـ و به‎ويژه حق ـ آن هم حقوقي انساني. ما كه اموال ”ديگران“ به حساب مي‎آمديم، مالك خيابان و از آن خود شديم.
در آن روز وقتي ”كلماتي را كه دل‎انگيزتر از آواز بود“ سر داديم، حتا بوق و هياهوي اتاقك‎هاي آهني يا لباس‎هاي سبز و يك‎دست نيروي انتظامي هم مانع‎مان نشد. آن روز ما عصيان زيرزميني‎مان را پس از 26 سال به كف خيابان زمخت انقلاب جاري كرديم و نرده‎ و حصارهاي زشت وسط خيابان را كه قوطي‎هاي آهني بزرگ را از قوطي‎هاي كوچك‎تر جدا مي‎كرد كمرنگ ساختيم.
آن روز در غوغاي تردد آدم‎ها و آهن‎ها در خيابان شلوغ انقلاب با آن‎ همه كتابفروشي كه به جاي عرضه‎ي دفترهاي ذهن خلاق آفرينش‎گران، حالا عمدتا تست‎هاي دانشگاهي و كتاب‎هاي درسي را به‎رخ مي‎كشند، روزي را ساختيم و خاطره‎اي را به ذهنيت اين شهر شلوغ افزوديم، آدم‎هايي كه اولين‎بار از ديدن آن همه زن متعجب شدند، تعجب از مشاهده‎ي زنان جديد دهه‎ي 80 كه حرف‎هاي ناآشنا مي‎سرودند، آن هم در خياباني كه قبلا انقلاب بود و حالا به احتضار و انفعال درآمده بود، خياباني كه با تعجب واقعه‎اي را در 22 خرداد ديد كه نظيرش را تجربه نكرده بود.
ما در روز 22 خرداد براي لحظه‎اي ذهن عابران بي‎تفاوت را مردد كرديم كه آيا واقعا خواب نمي‎بينند و در شهر خودشان هستند يا موجوداتي كه مي‎بينند از سياره‎اي ديگر آمده‎اند. شهري خسته، عبوس و پردود و غريبه كه بعد از 22 خرداد كمي مال ما شد، از آن خودمان، لااقل سردر دانشگاه تهران‎اش كه تا پيش از آن با اين‎‎كه يكي از دانشجويان‎اش بودم چنين حس تعلقي به آن نداشتم، اما آن روز از آن من و ما شد. چون ما زنان ”زيرزميني“ زاده‎ي اين شهر بالاخره رويت شديم، براي عابراني كه تاكنون نمي‎شناختن‎مان يا نمي‎خواستند بشناسند! براي شاگرد كتابفروشي‎ها و ناشراني كه با چرخ دستي‎شان كتاب‎هاي كمك‎ درسي را جابه‎جا مي‎كردند و هنگامي‎كه به خانه‎هاي‎شان بازمي‎گشتند شايد با خود مي‎انديشيدند كه ديگر زنان‎شان را نمي‎شناسند. براي رهگذراني كه مي‎خواستند هرچه زودتر از مهلكه بدر بروند يا آن راننده‎ي تاكسي كه از آن‎جا گذشت و عصيان زنان جديد شهرش را ديد و مجبور شد آن روز به خود بقبولاند كه زنش با ما زنان ”خياباني“ فرق دارد.
شهامت زنان در 22 خرداد 84 به من نيز اين جسارت را بخشيده كه بخواهم روزي را از آن خودم كنم. من از نسل زناني هستم كه در حاشيه‎ي متني پررنگ هنوز هيچ چيز ”از آن خود“ ندارد، و هنوز چه كم يا شايد هيچ به مبارزات زنان كشورش و دنيايش نيافزوده. همه‎ چيزشان ساخته و پرداخته‎ي گذشتگان است. روز جهاني‎ام را كلارا زتكين به من هديه داده و روزهاي ديگرم را مبارزات رنج‎خيز ديگر زنان برايم به يادگار گذاشته‎اند، اما حالا مي‎خواهم با جسارت بگويم من هم وقتي در كنار آن 6 هزار نفر زن سرافراز و پرغرور، جلوي دانشگاه تهران قدم به خيابان گذاشتم ”روز“ ي را در تاريخ از آن خود كردم و حالا خوشحالم كه دستم پر است و مي‎توانم آن را به ديگران هديه كنم.
من يك زنم، زني ايراني، ميراث ‎دار شهامت‎هاي بزرگ تهمينه، زينب‎پاشا. بي‎بي‎خانم، صديقه دولت‎آبادي و... اما من حق دارم شهامت‎ به ارث‎ رسيده‎ي بزرگان را با شهامت‎هاي كوچك خودم زنده كنم. حق دارم كه روز خودم (و تاريخ خودم) را با دستان نحيف خودم بسازم و به يمن حضورم در آن روز، روز خودم را هر سال گرامي بدارم، حتا اگر زنان جهان ندانند يا آيندگان آن را پاس ندارند اما نسل من ـ زنان جديد دهه‎ي 80 خورشيدي ـ كه آن روز را زير تيغ هرم سوزان خردادماه ساخته‎اند حداقل مي‎توانند حق پاسداشت آن را براي خود محفوظ دارند. آري من روزي از آن خود مي‎خواهم روزي كه خودم در كنار آن 6 هزار زن ديگر ساختيم و در كنار بيش از اين تعداد پرورانديمش و تا زنده‎ايم ادامه‎اش خواهيم داد.
22 خرداد، روز همبستگي‎ام با نسلي از زنان هم‎وطنم است كه مانند من مي‎انديشند و با هم روياهاي شبانه‎ي مشترك داريم. روز من، روز 22 خرداد است روزي از آن ”خود“ ايراني و فمينيستي‎ام. روزي كه نه دولت‎هايم آن را برايم به ارمغان آورده‎اند و نه هيچ سازمان بين‎المللي، روزي كه نه تنها دولت‎هايم دوست‎اش ندارند بلكه شايد براي‎شان عذاب‎آور باشد. يعني روزي كه هيچ سازمان دولتي و بين‎المللي پاس‎اش نمي‎دارد و هنوز هيچ‎ انجمن فمينيستي در جهان نمي‎داند كه 6 هزار زن در اين گوشه‎ي دنيا روي آسفالت‎هاي داغ، سرودي را خواندند كه متعلق به نسل خودشان بود و از گذشتگان به عاريت نگرفته بودند و شعارهايي دادند كه خودشان ساخته بودند و رنگارنگي‎شان را حتا تاريخ مرز و بوم‎شان هم به‎ياد ندارد.
روز 22 خرداد را نسل امروز فمينيست‎هاي ايراني، خود به تنهايي و به‎رغم حاشيه‎ بودن، بدون مهر تاييد سازمان‎هاي بين‎المللي و دولت‎ها ساخته‎اند بنابراين نسل من حق دارد خواهان آن باشد كه پاسداشت‎اش را هر سال براي خود گرامي بدارد.
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