'Womans Rights' Protesters beaten in Iran

[ShadyShady]

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TEHRAN, Iran Jun 12, 2006 (AP)? Iranian police with batons and shields beat women's rights demonstrators in a downtown Tehran square Monday, injuring one protester and detaining 20.

The injured woman was taken to a hospital with wounds to her face and head. Her identity and further details were not immediately available.

The protest by about 200 women was organized by a previously unknown group calling itself the Labor and Communist Party. An invitation delivered to The Associated Press on Sunday demanded equal rights for women and the nullification of a law allowing Iranian men to have four wives.

"We are women, we are human, but we don't have any rights!" protesters chanted.

Some 100 police, including female officers, attacked the demonstrators and dispersed them about an hour after the protest began.

Throughout most of the confrontation, female officers beat female protesters and male police beat male protesters there to support the women. Male police generally are not permitted to touch female suspects.

"I don't care about the police charging us with batons," said Laila, 21, who would not give her last name. "I would attend any pro-human rights demonstration in the future," she said.

None of Iran's state-run media reported on the protest.

"They won't report it (because) they don't like people who think about their quality of life," said Marzia, a 34-year-old protester who also would not give her last name.

In March, police attacked about 200 women's rights demonstrators at a Tehran park, beating women and their male supporters with batons.

Iran's Islamic law imposes tight restrictions on women. They need a male guardian's permission to work or travel. Women are not allowed to become judges, and a man's court testimony is considered twice as important as a woman's.

Despite such restrictions, Iranian women have more rights than their counterparts in Saudi Arabia and some other conservative Muslim countries. They can drive, vote and run for office.


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[joft]

i'm not sure if i understand the picture. is the person in brown and white a female police officer? if so, why is she fat? are we (americans) outsourcing our female police officers?

(yes i'm aware of the backward usage of outsourcing)

[ptGatsby]

are we (americans) outsourcing our female police officers?


I'd guess that the donut theory transcends geography and nationality.

[ShadyShady]

Irans female police:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Gv4G7ecWCuU&search=iran%20police

Funny thing about that video is I first saw it on a feminist forum and they were talking about how great it was... but I suspected that the women in the video werent feminists. Go try to 'liberate' the Iranian women and they are gonna be shooting at you.

[PenguinHunter]

Probably worth noting this is more of a civil disobedience issue than a gender one.

[charred_heart]

Probably worth noting this is more of a civil disobedience issue than a gender one.nah. The Iranian govt. is messed up

[PenguinHunter]

nah. The Iranian govt. is messed up

The Iranian government is messed up but the reason for such a big crackdown here more because of the fact that it undermines the government's authority if they let it go than because they they hate women speaking up.

[charred_heart]

The Iranian government is messed up but the reason for such a big crackdown here more because of the fact that it undermines the government's authority if they let it go than because they they hate women speaking up.and that's not messed up?

[PenguinHunter]

and that's not messed up?

I just said it was but you disagreed with my thesis so I elaborated slightly. (1st response was to the "nah")

[charred_heart]

I just said it was but you disagreed with my thesis so I elaborated slightly. (1st response was to the "nah")I agree that it's not a gender issue. I generally don't put emphasis on the semantics of oppression. Did shadyshady think the Iranian govt. beat up woman protestors only? A kind of Government based domestic abuse?

[PenguinHunter]

I agree that it's not a gender issue. I generally don't put emphasis on the semantics of oppression. Did shadyshady think the Iranian govt. beat up woman protestors only? A kind of Government based domestic abuse?

Alrighty that was all I wanted to point out. I just feel the semantics to be important here because of the sensitive issue of Muslim women's rights. Most people in the West will read this as "Islam Beats on Women Again," whereas the main issue for the Iranian government is not women's rights (see current Saudi thread for a brief outline of my theory on that) but "Respect my Authority." If this is the law, it is the law: obey - kind of thing.

Q1 and 2: No, I don't think so.

[ShadyShady]

Did shadyshady think the Iranian govt. beat up woman protestors only? A kind of Government based domestic abuse?



male police beat male protesters there to support the women.

Whats wrong with beating up communists anyway? It's not like they are real people.

:confused:

[charred_heart]

Whats wrong with beating up communists anyway? It's not like they are real people.

:confused:conservatives in the west have weird misconceptions sometimes. It's hard for me to figure out where people who start these threads are coming from, are they commenting on human rights abuse? oppression of women? some evil female eradication conspiracy??

[Park]

conservatives in the west have weird misconceptions sometimes. It's hard for me to figure out where people who start these threads are coming from, are they commenting on human rights abuse? oppression of women? some evil female eradication conspiracy??

Probably had a brother who's hamster died when he was a kid,,,,,can leave one traumatized for life,,,.

[Architectonic]

I first saw it on a feminist forum.

Wow, you're more fucked up than I initially thought....

[relaxo]

Article 116 of Iran's Penal Code states: "Stones used in stoning should neither be so big, as to kill the adulterous at the first of second blow, nor as small as a pebble."

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image of woman half buried in the dirt with terrified face while soldiers sit around

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[ration_the_poor]

Throughout most of the confrontation, female officers beat female protesters and male police beat male protesters there to support the women. Male police generally are not permitted to touch female suspects.

Sounds to me as if women police officers can beat male suspects but male police officers can't beat female suspects......yet again the feminist brigade on their high horses when the men are being discriminated against

[coffeezombie]

Women beating women, huh? There goes that feminist utopia theory.

[xavierd]

TEHRAN, Iran Jun 12, 2006 (AP)? Iranian police with batons and shields beat women's rights demonstrators in a downtown Tehran square Monday, injuring one protester and detaining 20.

Does anyone else think this sounds kind of weird. It comes off as if these police officers came in and Rodney King'ed everybody but only one protester was injured. Unless I am missing something, it sounds like the press was just blowing this out of proportion as I would expect more than just one person would have been injured.

[ShadyShady]

Does anyone else think this sounds kind of weird. It comes off as if these police officers came in and Rodney King'ed everybody but only one protester was injured. Unless I am missing something, it sounds like the press was just blowing this out of proportion as I would expect more than just one person would have been injured.

Maybe the rest ran away.


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