Women in Pursuit of Justice

Women in Pursuit of Justice

Ever since the fanatic mullahs’ rise to power in 1979, many dissidents have been facing imprisonment, torture, and execution. 

The main Iranian opposition group, People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK), has reported over 120,000 executed members.  Women make up about one-third of these executions. 

The notorious massacre of 1988 carried out on Khomeini’s fatwa (decree), claimed around 30,000 lives over the few months of summer that year.  

Incarceration of political opponents and human rights activists and repression of all forms of dissent comprise the predominant theme of the Iranian regime’s rule ever since.

Presently as this study is under publication, at least 160 female prisoners of conscience and political prisoners are held behind bars while executions of ordinary people, 73 of them women, has hit a record high under Rouhani to rein in and clamp down on a volatile society

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http://women.ncr-iran.org/documents/3760-women-in-pursuit-of-justice-4