NCRI – In a series of anti-government demonstrations in Marivan, western Iran, yesterday, protesters gathered outside the local Judiciary office and chanted slogans against the regime and its misogynist rules.
The protests sparked following the horrific murder of an 18-year-old girl identified as Fereshteh Nejati by her father. Such appalling crimes take place based on misogynist rules and encouraged by ruling clerics in Iran and it is spreading. In the meantime, the perpetrators of these crimes are formally and lawfully immune from any punishment.
The regime’s suppressive forces were dispatched to counter demonstrators and they made several arrests.
Ms. Sarvnaz Chitsaz, Chair of the NCRI’s Women’s Committee, praised the residents of Marivan for their protest against mullahs’ misogynist rules and called on human rights and women’s rights organizations to take measures to free those detained during the protest.
Women’s Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
August 22, 2008
