Iran: 9 actresses banned from performing

Nine famous actresses in Iran have been banned from acting due to “improper veiling and breaking the norms”, according to a recent statement issued by a government body supervising over the TV & Radio Organization in Iran.
Madams Linda Kiyani, Hanane Shahshahani, Narges Mohammadi, Alnaz Habibi, Bahare Afshari, Hadith Mir-amini, Sahar Ghoreishi, Ronak Younesi and Rabe’e Oskuie – all famous actresses of Iran’s cinema and theater – have been banned from performing in the future. 

Women’s unemployment rates in Iran

Unemployment in Iran reached 10.8% in the spring of 2015 and these numbers varied between 7.8% and 15.6% in the country’s border provinces, according to a report issued by the Statistics Center.
Unemployment amongst young women, both across the country and in border areas, was worse than all other groups. Unemployment amongst men between the ages of 15 to 24 was reported at 20.9% across the country, and yet 43.1% percent amongst women in this age group.
Unemployment amongst women in Mazandaran Province (northern Iran) was reported at a whopping 65.6%.
In the provinces of North Khorasan , Southern Khorasan and Khorasan Razavi half of the women in this age group are reported to be unemployed.
The lowest unemployment rate of women in this age group was 26.4% in East Azerbaijan Province. However, this, itself is twice the unemployment numbers of the entire country.
The worse unemployment numbers reported belonged to Kohgilaviye and Boyer Ahmed (southern Iran) in which 82.8% of women are unemployed. 48.2% of the youth in this province are unemployed, ranking 1st in the country.

Story of college graduate girls resorting to street peddling in Iran

The state-run Tabnak website wrote a piece about street vendors in Iran:
Prior to this it was imagined that street vendors are resorting to such measures due to economic problems or unemployment issues. Currently, a large number of women are seen doing street peddling in the metros and they are citing financial issues, family problems and a shortage in supplies.
A number of these women are actually college graduates and they have resorted to running street shops despite all its problems.
“I have two children and I am Ok with selling goods in the metros. But unfortunately, some people don’t have the maturity to see us in such conditions,” said Leila, 45, with a bachelor’s degree incomputer science.
“I am in poor financial conditions and my earnings do not live up to provide for myself and my husband. I couldn’t find a job after graduating from college and this forced me to start street Peddling,” said Maryam, 27, a graduate in agriculture.

21 September 2015; De Internationale Dag Van De Vrede

21 September 2015; De Internationale Dag Van De Vrede

Stichting van de Familieleden STFA

Wij zijn een groep uit 12 mensen. Op zondag 13 september van Den haag naar Breda zijn wij reisgenoten geworden.

Ons team bestond uit studenten en zorgverleners.(artsen, verpleegkundigen enz).

Ons team is ter ondersteuning van de kampanje mensenrechten in elkaar gezet.

wij hebben samen  €310 verzameld en hebben alles aan de Stichting van de Familieleden STFA gegeven.

Wij staan achter deze stichting en bij de volgende project gaan we medicijnen voor de vrijheidsstrijders in kamp Liberty verzamelen.

M.J.L  WIJNGAARDEN

Stichting van de Familieleden STFA

Ik heb de vrienden van de Stichting van de Familieleden STFA tijdens een reis naar Amsterdam ontmoet.

Ik was met mijn leerlingen onderweg naar Amsterdam met de trein.

Mijn leerlingen waren dan aan het zingen. Dan kwam een vrouw bij ons. zij pakte haar gitaar en deed met de groep mee. 

Voordat we in Amsterdam aankwamen, vroeg ik haar naam en zo is ons vriendschap begonnen.

Nu na de jarenlang weet ik veel over Iran, wat nooit in de media te vinden valt.

Zelfs de journalisten die in Iran rapportages maken komen of niet mogen zich met bepaalde onderwerpen bemoeien.

Ik ben blij dat ik mijn vrienden van de stichting Iraanse familieleden kan helpen. Ik ben van mening dat ons steun en hulp de probleem grondig aanpakken. anders heeft dat geen zin.

Wij hebben in ons klas een spaarpot staan. Wij doen regelmatig ons bijdrage daarin.

Ik ga zelf in mijn vrije tijd naar stad en deel ik brochures uit en ik ben nu een vrijwilliger die mensen om hulp vraag.

Ik vraag jullie ook om hulp.

PAULINE V.D ARTZ

Iran: female prisoner on hunger strike

Iran: female prisoner on hunger strike
Jailed child rights activist Atena Faraghdani went on hunger strike for three days protesting “bogus allegations” raised against her by security agents.
The mother of this prisoner said her daughter was charged on Saturday, September 12, of having “illegitimate relations” with her lawyer, Mohammad Moghimi for shaking his hand in prison. Even the lawyer has been arrested and transferred to Rajaie Shahr Prison in Karaj, west of Tehran. This arrest raised numerous protests from various lawyers. 
Despite her dire physical conditions Faraghdani launched this hunger strike and protested the bogus allegations.
She was already sentenced by a so-called Islamic court to 12 years and 9 months behind bars on charges of “propaganda against the state, measures against national security, insulting members of parliament through drawings, and insulting Khamenei and the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC).” Faraghdani was arrested on August 23, 2014 by the IRGC and spent nearly two months in Ward 2A of Evin Prison that is under IRGC supervision. Twenty days of her detention was in solitary confinement. She also went on hunger strike for twenty days protesting lack of access to a lawyer, being deprived of phone calls with her family and her continued illegal detention. However, she suffered a heart attack on the 18th day and was hospitalized in Firuzgar Hospital, south of Tehran. A few days later she was returned to Evin Prison.
(September 15, 2015)