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Manipur's Imphal witnesses protests against AFSPA, killings of women, children
2 weeks, 1 day ago

Manipur's Imphal witnesses protests against AFSPA, killings of women, children

India TV News  

In Manipur’s capital Imphal hundreds of people took out a rally on Tuesday against the reimposition of AFSPA and the killings of six people, including three children, in Jirbham district last month. The rally was organised jointly to mark Human Rights Day by All Manipur United Clubs Organisation, Poirei Leimarol Meira Paibi Apunba Manipur, All Manipur Women Voluntary Association, Committee …

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Kolkata Doctor Case: West Bengal Under 'Gunda Raj,' Says Governor C. V. Ananda Bose | ABP News
4 months ago

Kolkata Doctor Case: West Bengal Under 'Gunda Raj,' Says Governor C. V. Ananda Bose | ABP News

ABP News  

Protests against the brutal assault and murder of a female trainee doctor at Kolkata’s R.G. Doctors across major cities, including Kolkata, Delhi, Mumbai, and Chandigarh, are demanding better safety measures and justice for the victim. On Sunday night, hundreds of women in Kolkata and other parts of West Bengal took to the streets in a ‘Reclaim the Night’ campaign, demanding …

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On Camera, Anti-Israel Protester In Canada Says ‘Jewish Women Too Ugly To Be Raped’
7 months, 3 weeks ago

On Camera, Anti-Israel Protester In Canada Says ‘Jewish Women Too Ugly To Be Raped’

News 18  

Two videos from the US and Canada where anti-Israel protesters are caught on camera making antisemitic comments during the sweeping protests demanding universities divest from Israel have gone viral. One video from Vancouver in British Columbia shows an elderly woman at a pro-Palestinian rally telling a woman recording her and the rally that ‘Jewish women are too ugly to be …

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Gunmen kill a member of Iran's paramilitary force and wound 3 others on protest anniversary
1 year, 3 months ago

Gunmen kill a member of Iran's paramilitary force and wound 3 others on protest anniversary

The Hindu  

Gunmen opened fire on a group of paramilitary forces in southern Iran, killing one of them and wounding another three, state media reported Sunday. The official IRNA news agency said the attack targeting members of the paramilitary Basij occurred late Saturday in the town of Nourabad, some 630 km south of the capital, Tehran. The anniversary saw a heavy deployment …

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Activists in Europe mark the anniversary of Mahsa Amini’s death in police custody in Iran
1 year, 3 months ago

Activists in Europe mark the anniversary of Mahsa Amini’s death in police custody in Iran

Associated Press  

LONDON — Hundreds gathered in central London on Saturday to mark the anniversary of the death of Mahsa Amini, the 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman who died in police custody in Iran last year, sparking worldwide protests against the country’s conservative Islamic theocracy. Mahsa Jina Amini and the many others cannot have died in vain,″ said Maryam Namazie, an Iranian human rights …

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Iran sentences 8 to prison over paramilitary's death during last year's nationwide protests
1 year, 4 months ago

Iran sentences 8 to prison over paramilitary's death during last year's nationwide protests

The Independent  

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Israeli protests: How women have found an effective path forward, as handmaids.
1 year, 6 months ago

Israeli protests: How women have found an effective path forward, as handmaids.

Slate  

Last week represented the 20th consecutive weekend in which Israeli activists took to the streets, in cities throughout the country, to protest a series of judicial “reforms” introduced by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ruling coalition of hard-right and ultra-Orthodox members of Parliament. One powerful ongoing image from these protests has been the hundreds of Israeli women dressed as handmaids from …

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In Israel, TV’s dystopian ‘Handmaids’ is protest fixture
1 year, 9 months ago

In Israel, TV’s dystopian ‘Handmaids’ is protest fixture

Associated Press  

TEL AVIV, Israel — It’s become an ominous fixture of the mass anti-government protests roiling Israel: a coil of women in crimson robes and white caps, walking heads bowed and hands clasped. “This display is a representation of the things that we fear,” said Moran Zer Katzenstein, founder of the women’s rights advocacy group Bonot Alternativa, or “building an alternative,” …

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Iran hijab row: Police targeting women protests especially on their faces, breasts and genitals: Report
2 years ago

Iran hijab row: Police targeting women protests especially on their faces, breasts and genitals: Report

India TV News  

Iran hijab row: A shocking media report claimed that Iranian security forces are now targeting the private parts, faces and other vital organs of female protestors to spread fear among the women demonstrators. One of the physicians told the UK-based media outlet that the security forces were targetting women's faces and private parts as they have an inferiority complex and …

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Status of Iran’s morality police unclear after official’s comment
2 years ago

Status of Iran’s morality police unclear after official’s comment

LA Times  

Iranians have been protesting for months since the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in the custody of the country’s “morality police.” An Iranian lawmaker said Sunday that the government is “paying attention to the people’s real demands,” state media reported, a day after a top official suggested that the country’s morality police whose conduct helped trigger months of protests have …

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Iran suspends morality police. What does it mean?
2 years ago

Iran suspends morality police. What does it mean?

Al Jazeera  

The Islamic guidance patrol may be gone for now after months of protests, but mandatory hijab is not. Tehran, Iran – The morality police in Iran have been shut down, at least for now, according to the country’s prosecutor general. The announcement was made in the third month of protests that erupted after the death in police custody of Mahsa …

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Barred from stadiums at home, Iran women travel to World Cup
2 years, 1 month ago

Barred from stadiums at home, Iran women travel to World Cup

The Hindu  

Published : Nov 22, 2022 15:42 IST To 27-year-old Mariam, the World Cup match ticket was a precious gift. A sports fanatic, she travelled to the World Cup in Qatar from Tehran to catch Iran’s opening game on November 21 against England, her first live soccer match. Many Iran fans wore T-shirts or waving signs printed with the mantra of …

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'Zan, Zendegi, Azadi': Iranian schoolgirls throw away mandatory hijabs, demand freedom from Islamist regime
2 years, 2 months ago

'Zan, Zendegi, Azadi': Iranian schoolgirls throw away mandatory hijabs, demand freedom from Islamist regime

Op India  

As the protests against the death of Mahsa Amini gather steam in Iran, now thousands of schoolgirls have joined in to demand freedom from the mandatory hijab laws in the Islamic country. This is days after an Iranian woman named Mahsa Amini was apprehended and brutally beaten by the ‘morality police’ for not complying with the mandatory hijab laws of …

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Iran faces global criticism and protests over death of woman held by its morality police
2 years, 3 months ago

Iran faces global criticism and protests over death of woman held by its morality police

LA Times  

Iran faced international criticism on Tuesday over the death of a woman held by its morality police, which ignited three days of protests, including clashes with security forces in the capital and other unrest that claimed at least three lives. Separately, an Iranian official said three people had been killed by unnamed armed groups in the Kurdish region of the …

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'Put his foot on my head': Afghan journalists recount Taliban torture for covering women's protest
3 years, 3 months ago

'Put his foot on my head': Afghan journalists recount Taliban torture for covering women's protest

Hindustan Times  

Two Afghan journalists have recounted the horror they were subjected after a group of Taliban fighters hauled them and took them to a police station in Kabul. As reported by news agency AFP, photographer Nematullah Naqdi said one of the Taliban put his foot on his head and then crushed his face against the concrete. Afghan newspaper Etilaatroz journalists Neamat …

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‘Shaheen Bagh returns’: Netizens say as protesting ‘farmers’ served biryani
4 years ago

‘Shaheen Bagh returns’: Netizens say as protesting ‘farmers’ served biryani

Op India  

Amidst the ongoing protest by ‘farmers’ against the farms bills passed by the Modi government, a video shared by Times of India has gone viral on social media which shows Biryani being served to ‘farmers’ camping in Ghazipur, Delhi. Netizens were quick to draw equivalences between the ongoing farmers’ protest at Delhi border areas and the anti-CAA protest at Shaheen …

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Nationwide strike in Poland over abortion ruling
4 years, 1 month ago

Nationwide strike in Poland over abortion ruling

The Hindu  

People across Poland are vowing to stay off their jobs on Wednesday as part of a nationwide strike to protest a top court ruling that bans abortions in cases of congenitally damaged fetuses. The nationwide strike comes amid a deepening standoff between angry crowds who have been taking to the streets over the ruling and Poland’s deeply conservative government, which …

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