Iran: Flogging sentence for a young Kurdish female university student 12/14/2017 11:05:44 PM   facebook Google+ ► Print National Council of Resistance of Iran The Women’s Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran condemns the flogging sentence issued for a young Kurdish female student and calls on the nation’s women and youths to protest against such criminal verdicts. The  NCRI  Women’s Committee urges international human rights and women’s rights organizations to undertake effective measures to stop such cruel and inhuman punishments. On December 7, the Student Day in Iran, the clerical regime’s court in Saqqez, Iranian Kurdistan, sentenced Zamaneh Zivi to cash fine and 50 lashes of the whip on the charge of “disruption of public order.” She is a senior student of law at Payam Noor University of Saqqez in Kurdistan. The Iranian regime’s resort to such an inhuman punishment for a girl student only indicates its fear of ...

Women's News Iran: Kurdish woman under torture to make TV confessions An Iranian Kurdish woman is under torture and inhuman pressures to make false televised confessions. Chini Akharkhoob, from Saqqez, a city in Iranian Kurdistan Province, who was arrested by intelligence agents on September 26, 2017, is still in prison after 40 days. The Department of Intelligence has told Ms. Akharkhoob that they would release her only after she speaks out against Kurdish opposition parties before the camera. She has refused to give in to this demand and as a result the Intelligence Department has increased its pressures on her and her family in order to make her cave in. After the independence referendum for Iraqi Kurdistan, held on September 25, 2017, hundreds of Iranian Kurds were arrested by security and intelligence agents for celebrating the outcome. At least  10 of those arrested were women . The clerical regime has conditioned the release of these prisoners on making fa...