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Iran Executes Woman Over Killing Four-Year-Old Stepdaughter
The child, identified as Ava, died in December 2023 after sustaining brain injuries caused by wounds inflicted by her stepmother, the judiciary's Mizan Online news outlet reported.
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Opinion | Iran To Trump: When Female Body Becomes A Battleground
The Iranian woman who stripped at a university campus recently became a symbol of resistance. But, the impulse to control women's bodies is hardly confined to medievalist theocracies: the US has voted Trump back into power.
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Iran Calls Woman Who Stripped In Public Is A "Troubled Individual"
A female student who stripped to her underwear at an Iranian university does not represent a security issue but is a "troubled individual" who is receiving treatment, a government spokesperson said.
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Woman Whipped 74 Times For "Violating Public Morals" In Iran
Iranian authorities have whipped a woman 74 times for "violating public morals" and fined her for not covering her head, the judiciary said.
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Iranian Woman Died Of "Blow To The Head" After Hijab Arrest, Says Family
Iranian Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini was visiting Tehran with her family when she encountered the notorious morality police and died after a "violent blow to the head", her cousin living in Iraq said.
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Allow Women Into Football Stadiums Without Restrictions, FIFA Orders Iran
Iranian women fans are free to enter a football stadium Thursday for the first time in decades, after FIFA threatened to suspend the Islamic republic over its controversial male-only policy.
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Iran Appoints First Woman Ambassador Since Revolution
Iran has appointed its first woman ambassador since the 1979 Islamic revolution, naming foreign ministry spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham to head its embassy in Malaysia, the foreign minister announced today.
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Iran Hangs Woman in Defiance of International Campaign That Tried to Save Her
Iran executed Saturday a 26-year-old woman who had spent five years on death row for the murder of a former intelligence official, defying international pressure to spare her life.
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Iran airs new confession by woman in stoning case
An Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery confessed to helping a man kill her husband and re-enacted the alleged crime in an interview broadcast Friday by Iranian state television -- an apparent effort by the government to deflect international criticism over the case.It was the fourth time Sakineh Mohammedi Ashtiani has been show...
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Will Iranian woman be stoned to death after Ramzan?
The son of an Iranian woman sentenced to be stoned to death for adultery said Monday that he fears she will be executed shortly after this week's end to the Muslim holy month of Ramzan.Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani's 22-year-old son Sajjad Mohammadi Ashtiani was speaking by telephone to a news conference organised in Paris by the French philosopher Be...
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Iran will not stone 'adulterous' woman. For now
Iran's judiciary says the controversial stoning sentence for a woman convicted of adultery will not be implemented for now.Malek Ajdar Sharifi, the top judicial official in the province where the woman was convicted has told the state news agency the sentence "will not be implemented for the time being."He added in Sunday's report that the death se...
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Iran Executes Woman Over Killing Four-Year-Old Stepdaughter
The child, identified as Ava, died in December 2023 after sustaining brain injuries caused by wounds inflicted by her stepmother, the judiciary's Mizan Online news outlet reported.
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Opinion | Iran To Trump: When Female Body Becomes A Battleground
The Iranian woman who stripped at a university campus recently became a symbol of resistance. But, the impulse to control women's bodies is hardly confined to medievalist theocracies: the US has voted Trump back into power.
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Iran Calls Woman Who Stripped In Public Is A "Troubled Individual"
A female student who stripped to her underwear at an Iranian university does not represent a security issue but is a "troubled individual" who is receiving treatment, a government spokesperson said.
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Woman Whipped 74 Times For "Violating Public Morals" In Iran
Iranian authorities have whipped a woman 74 times for "violating public morals" and fined her for not covering her head, the judiciary said.
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Iranian Woman Died Of "Blow To The Head" After Hijab Arrest, Says Family
Iranian Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini was visiting Tehran with her family when she encountered the notorious morality police and died after a "violent blow to the head", her cousin living in Iraq said.
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Allow Women Into Football Stadiums Without Restrictions, FIFA Orders Iran
Iranian women fans are free to enter a football stadium Thursday for the first time in decades, after FIFA threatened to suspend the Islamic republic over its controversial male-only policy.
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Iran Appoints First Woman Ambassador Since Revolution
Iran has appointed its first woman ambassador since the 1979 Islamic revolution, naming foreign ministry spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham to head its embassy in Malaysia, the foreign minister announced today.
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Iran Hangs Woman in Defiance of International Campaign That Tried to Save Her
Iran executed Saturday a 26-year-old woman who had spent five years on death row for the murder of a former intelligence official, defying international pressure to spare her life.
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Iran airs new confession by woman in stoning case
An Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery confessed to helping a man kill her husband and re-enacted the alleged crime in an interview broadcast Friday by Iranian state television -- an apparent effort by the government to deflect international criticism over the case.It was the fourth time Sakineh Mohammedi Ashtiani has been show...
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Will Iranian woman be stoned to death after Ramzan?
The son of an Iranian woman sentenced to be stoned to death for adultery said Monday that he fears she will be executed shortly after this week's end to the Muslim holy month of Ramzan.Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani's 22-year-old son Sajjad Mohammadi Ashtiani was speaking by telephone to a news conference organised in Paris by the French philosopher Be...
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Iran will not stone 'adulterous' woman. For now
Iran's judiciary says the controversial stoning sentence for a woman convicted of adultery will not be implemented for now.Malek Ajdar Sharifi, the top judicial official in the province where the woman was convicted has told the state news agency the sentence "will not be implemented for the time being."He added in Sunday's report that the death se...
