‘I Stand By You, My Sisters’: From Iran, Solidarity With American Women
Thu 21 Jul 2022
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It may seem that new societies have been passing through the traditional "masculinity" patterns for years and have reached the new types of masculinity. That is, the patterns used to represent men that are often equipped with knowledge, intellectualism, rationality and high levels of tolerance, as well as increasingly trying to gender equality values. However, some feminist researchers believe that there is a tendency to observe equality values, mild behaviours, and defending women's rights only in men whose behaviours can be redefined within the framework of "alternative masculinity".
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the appalling conditions in Iran’s Qarchak prison for women, to which two journalists were recently transferred, and calls for a strong and immediate reaction from the Office of the UN High Commission for Human Rights and the UN special rapporteur on the human rights situation in Iran.
Six years ago on New Year’s Day, an Iranian-Austrian IT businessman said goodbye to his wife and three children and boarded a flight from Vienna to Tehran via Istanbul. Kamran Ghaderi was due to return five to six days later, but instead, on 2 January 2016, he was arrested and has now spent six years in Evin prison in Tehran.
Two lawyers and a civil rights activist who were outspoken about Iran’s chaotic response to the pandemic and delays in its vaccine rollout are on trial now, charged with threatening national security.