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Shabtabnews – On the occasion of The international day for Women’s rights IOPHR issues a statement highlighting the plight of Iranian women and their struggles for human rights.
The statement declares: “IOPHR notes while the Day for Women’s Rights and International Peace is rightly celebrated around the world, there are sadly more than forty million Iranian women who are still held captive by a backward looking medieval ideology of the current Iranian Regime.
Unfortunately, the Iranian women have suffered for decades from gender discrimination by the forty-year rule of the extremist regime in Iran, which has led to the creation and development of anti-feminist regulations, which in turn has resulted in the great oppression of Iranian women.”
IOPHR also in the statement draws the world’s attention “to the very difficult conditions faced by nine women prisoners in Qarchak prison in Varamin, namely Ms. Golrokh Erayi, Marjan Davari, Raha Ahmadi, Leila Mirghafari, Mari Mohammadi, Zahra Sadeghi, Zahra Zare Seraji, Maryam Ebrahim Vand and Elnaz Pakravan. Each of these brave women can be a source of great service to human society, outside of the pressures imposed on Iran by the Islamic Republic, yet sadly they find themselves in prison simply because of their views.”
The statement ends with asking ” all human rights activists, and activists around the world to pay extra attention to the dire conditions of women’s rights in Iran, and to use all available means to pressure the authorities of the Islamic Republic to repeal all anti-feminist laws, which are the source of suppression and oppression of millions of Iranian women.”
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