Iran: Women’s rights demonstrators beaten and arrested

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Thursday June 29, 2006 14:16

by pat c

This is an Amnesty report on a Womens Rights march in Tehran, Iran, which was attacked by the Iranian Regimes police. This shows the reality of how women are treated in Iran.

Full article at link.

pat c

Iran: Women’s rights demonstrators beaten and arrested
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.

Police, including a large unit of policewomen, reportedly moved in as soon as the demonstration began and immediately started beating the protestors with batons in order to force them to disperse. They detained scores of demonstrators; on 13 June 2006, Minister of Justice and Spokesman for the Judiciary Jamal Karimi-Rad stated that 70 people had been arrested, 42 were women and 28 men, for participating in what he alleged was an illegal demonstration. When questioned about the beatings by police, he said, "if there was any beating, it will be reviewed". Some of those detained are reported to have been released.

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Islamic woman elected

by John

Fri Aug 25, 2006 10:30

DR. INGRID MATTSON ELECTED FIRST FEMALE PRESIDENT OF THE ISLAMIC
SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA (ISNA)

ISNA

Muslim organization elects Imam Mohamed Magid as Vice-President.

Plainfield, IN 08/23/2006 -The Islamic Society of North America
(www.isna.net) the largest religious organization representing Muslims
in North America -- has elected Dr. Ingrid Mattson as its President.
She is the first woman to head the organization.

Dr. Mattson, who earlier served as the first female ISNA Vice
President, is Professor of Islamic Studies and Director of Islamic
Chaplaincy at the Macdonald Center for Islamic Studies and
Christian-Muslim Relations at Hartford Seminary in Hartford, CT. Dr.
Mattson, who was born in Canada, studied Philosophy at the University
of Waterloo, Ontario (B.A. '87) and earned a Ph.D. in Islamic Studies
from the University of Chicago in 1999.

Dr. Mattson has written articles exploring the relationship between
Islamic law and society, as well as gender and leadership issues in
Muslim communities. Her forthcoming book, The Qur'an: Its History and
Place in Muslim Societies, is being published by Blackwell Press. Dr.
Mattson lives in Connecticut with her husband and two children. . . .

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Strange word usage.

by PaddyK

Fri Aug 25, 2006 16:19

Islamic Woman ?

WTF ?

Paddy

by Jenny

Fri Aug 25, 2006 16:29

I don't find it that odd. I often see the expressions: Christian Woman, Jewish Woman even just the other day Sikh Woman.

Indeed I see you are correct.

Fri Aug 25, 2006 16:38

http://www.google.ie/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=%22is...meta=

Just doesn't sound like a common turn of phrase, isn't it usually Muslim woman ?

Islamic woman sounds a bit anal or something.

Anyway , sorry... carry on.

Islamic Woman Sentenced to Death by Stoning

by Religion of Peace Alert

Fri Aug 25, 2006 18:32

"Islamic woman sounds a bit anal or something."

How dare you say islamic woman and anal in the same sentence. Some islamic man is likely to blow you up for that obscenity.

Iranian Woman Sentenced to Death by Stoning
Feminist Daily News Wire
July 28, 2006
Iranian Woman Sentenced to Death by Stoning
Ashraf Kolhari, a 37-year-old mother of four, has been sentenced to death by stoning for committing adultery in Iran. Kolhari was arrested five years ago and has been awaiting her sentence in prison. Recently, she received the decision that she would be executed by the end of July.

Reportedly, Kolhari had an affair after her request for a divorce from her husband was denied. According to Iran Focus, she was sentenced on two charges: she received 15 years imprisonment for participating in the murder of her husband and death by stoning for having extra-marital sex.

Under the Islamic Republic of Iran’s penal code, Kolhari must be buried up to her neck and killed by stoning for committing adultery. Though several ayatollahs have released fatwas – religious edicts – to stop deaths by stoning, Iranian women’s rights lawyer Shadi Sadr told the Adnkronos International, an Italian news agency, that fatwas are not sufficient to stop this cruel practice: “Single judges are not obliged to respect the fatwas. To stop stonings, we need a change in the law.”

According to the Women’s Forum Against Fundamentalism in Iran, there are eight other women in Iranian prisons who have been sentenced to death by stoning.
http://www.feminist.org/news/newsbyte/uswirestory.asp?i...=9799

Islamic boy Meets Islamic Justice

Fri Aug 25, 2006 18:34

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