On Monday, June 12th, a peaceful women’s gathering in one of the street in Tehran was savagely attacked by the Iranian Islamic regime police and about hundred people (mainly women) were arrested. As you see in the picture for the first time the Iranian authority used women police with tear gas and batons to beat women protesters, baking with the secret
and official police men.
During the night and the next morning the police also raided some women activists’ houses and they were then brutally captured and put in prison. In this confrontation some men came out in support of women and were also beaten and arrested.
women’s demands in this protest include: equality to the men in family law in term of right to divorce and the right to keep children after the divorce, the banning of Islamic polygamy (in Islam only men have the right to marry 4 wife and also many unofficial, casual women), an increase in the age of legal punishment from 9 to 18 years old for girls equal to boys, and the reform of employment laws which disadvantage female employees, which impose them more casual and unsafe jobs.
The laws of the Islamic regime of Iran continue to treat women as second-class citizens and regard the value of a woman’s life as half that of a man (if a man kills a woman he has to pay some compensation that is worth half that of a man). Women are denied equal rights in many elements of family life, including marriage and divorce, child custody, and in inheritance laws. According to the women section in the ‘holy’ Khoran, husbands in Islam have the right to beat their wives if she disobeys him. Stoning women to death for committing adultery is still practice in Iran alongside, compulsory head scarf (hejab) even school girls, women are not allowed to watch football in the stadium or sing songs.
We are calling this picket to express our solidarity with the women’s and their demands in Iran and in the meantime asking Amnesty International to seriously put constant pressure on the Iranian regime to release all arrested women and men from prison.
During the night and the next morning the police also raided some women activists’ houses and they were then brutally captured and put in prison. In this confrontation some men came out in support of women and were also beaten and arrested.
women’s demands in this protest include: equality to the men in family law in term of right to divorce and the right to keep children after the divorce, the banning of Islamic polygamy (in Islam only men have the right to marry 4 wife and also many unofficial, casual women), an increase in the age of legal punishment from 9 to 18 years old for girls equal to boys, and the reform of employment laws which disadvantage female employees, which impose them more casual and unsafe jobs.
The laws of the Islamic regime of Iran continue to treat women as second-class citizens and regard the value of a woman’s life as half that of a man (if a man kills a woman he has to pay some compensation that is worth half that of a man). Women are denied equal rights in many elements of family life, including marriage and divorce, child custody, and in inheritance laws. According to the women section in the ‘holy’ Khoran, husbands in Islam have the right to beat their wives if she disobeys him. Stoning women to death for committing adultery is still practice in Iran alongside, compulsory head scarf (hejab) even school girls, women are not allowed to watch football in the stadium or sing songs.
We are calling this picket to express our solidarity with the women’s and their demands in Iran and in the meantime asking Amnesty International to seriously put constant pressure on the Iranian regime to release all arrested women and men from prison.
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