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Iran: End Arrests on Immorality Charges
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Wednesday May 16, 2007 18:05 by Dorothy Gale
Mass Detentions, Home Raids Are Assaults on Privacy Human Rights Watch provides an update on the Iranian Juntas war on women. This puts things in the context of human, civil and gender rights. Since early April 2007, Iranian police and militia known as basiji have launched a nationwide crackdown against people they accuse of deviating from official standards of dress or behavior. On April 14, Iran’s Supreme Court overturned murder sentences against six basiji who had killed five people in 2002 whom they considered “morally corrupt,” contributing to a climate of impunity for the militia forces. |
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