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December 14, 2009       Share:    

Source: http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-12-12/irans-new-crackdown-on-women/?cid=bs:archive3

Iran's New Crackdown on Women

(Daily Beast) Dana Goldstein - As part of an intensified crackdown against Iranian civil-rights activists in recent weeks, since early November at least 11 feminist leaders have been summoned to court, threatened over the phone, or banned from traveling, according to the One Million Signatures Campaign, a national effort by Iranian feminists to collect 1 million signatures on a petition demanding an end to discrimination against women. Last month, Iranian state television ran a documentary attacking the women's rights movement, and on Dec. 2, female TV announcers were barred from wearing any makeup on air. On Dec. 6, amid widespread student protests, more than ten women were arrested at a weekly rally of mothers whose children were killed during protests of the disputed June 12 presidential election.

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