A New Women’s Movement Paradigm in Iran
Saturday 12 May 07
Iranian women are using new methods to confront discrimination and violence. In the course of their past struggles, they have learned that a society with deeply entrenched anti-women beliefs does not change quickly. They have learned that they must take small steps, that they must not try to push every struggle towards achieving a specific aim, a “total war.” Now, with these lessons, the women’s rights movement in Iran is slowly coming together as a coherent whole and realizing its vast potential.

A letter about Stoning to Death
Saturday 12 May 07
Azadeh Pourzand: A few weeks ago my mother, Mehrangiz Kar, wrote an article about stoning to death in Iran. She received many different feedbacks for her article that was published in Farsi. Among those responses we found an astonishing letter from an anonymous person whose mother was stoned to death twenty six years ago. Since the strength of the words of this letter paralyzed my body and mind for a few minutes, I decided to quickly translate the text. According to Article 83 of the Islamic Penal Code of Iran, stoning to death has been declared a permissible punishment for a few different types of adultery...