Iranian Women's Struggles and Brutality in Iran

Maryam Ayoobi, an Iranian woman in her twenties and mother of three young children, was convicted of adultery in March, and is sentenced to death by stoning, a sentence that could be carried out any day now unless Iran's President Mohammed Khatami grants clemency.
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• Woman's gains in Iran have come very slowly and at the highest cost

• Today's feminized poverty, and feminized migration, their brave efforts to win back their liberation are an inspiration to the international movement demanding gender justice.
  

• Iran's torture, cruelty, inhumanity and degrading treatment and punishment of women bears testimony to the country's scant respect for the Universal Declaration on Human Rights.

• When women are sentenced to death by "stoning," men are wrapped in sheets, and buried in a ditch up to their waist before the stoning begins. Women are buried to their neck, precluding any escape. This shows how women are seen as lower than men in their country. They get the harsher punishment because they are women.
  

• Early marriage is a common fate, with nine-year-old girls married off to men as old as ninety.Women do not get a chance to make a future for themselves, a good job and independence. They are married off early.

• On a daily basis, there are newspaper reports of girls and women being burnt alive, tortured by male relatives, sexually abused by government officials, and left on the streets to die.

• Females fall prey to drug traffickers, organ traffickers, and prostitution.

• Punishments handed down by Iran's Islamic fundamentalist courts also discriminate against women.

....With woman's courageous efforts to win back their liberation are an inspiration to the international movement demanding gender justice. These horrible crimes against women must be stopped.

(Said It:The Struggles and Brutality In Iran:the Fundamentalist backlash against women's progress - article- Lynette J. Dumble)