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International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran
March 27, 2018
“There is no freedom of expression or freedom after expression in Iran,” Mehrangiz Kar told the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) on March 26, 2018. “Mr. Khamenei is being deceptive and using the same tricks used by the judiciary to persecute people.” “His target audience is the masses, not a greatÃâà...
Iran Focus
March 26, 2018
While on Twitter, many lawyers, including Mehrangiz Kar, have stated that laws cannot contradict the norms and customs of a society, meaning that the hijab cannot be forced. These peaceful protests against the compulsory hijab are part of an overwhelming anti-regime protest movement in Iran that took onÃâà...
RadioFarda
March 25, 2018
Lawyers such as Mehrangiz Kar have contended on Twitter that laws cannot be against the society's norms and customs. Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and some of his hardline aides such as Ahmad Jannati have opposed demonstrations against compulsory hijab and attacked “insidersÃâà...
International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran
January 10, 2018
A coalition of Iranian human rights NGOs including Centre for Defenders of Human Rights, Centre for Human Rights in Iran, Impact Iran, Iran Human Rights Documentation Centre, Justice for Iran, and the Siamak Pourzand Foundation, has provided the Government of Germany with compelling evidenceÃâà...
Center for Human Rights in Iran
December 22, 2017
Anti-vice police arrested more than 230 young men and women at two private parties in Tehran during the Iranian festival of Yalda on December 21, 2017. Yalda is a winter solstice celebration observed on the longest night of the year. Traditionally families gather and celebrate at home but people living inÃâà...
RadioFarda
October 17, 2017
The prosecutor-general for Mashhad in Khorasan Razavi Province in northeast Iran says a man convicted of robbery has had his hand amputated. “The convict, collaborating with his younger brother, robbed a jewelry shop nearly six years ago, when he was 25 years old,” announced ultraconservativeÃâà...
Iran Press Watch
September 7, 2017
Gradually, the circle of untouchables, prostitutes and spies expanded in the lexicon of the Islamic Republic. Now, I have been invited to give a talk at this conference, at a place where Mehrangiz Kar, Abbas Milani, Hosayn Ghazian and other pre-eminent individuals have also sat to talk about Iranian culture,Ãâà...
International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran
May 8, 2017
Presidential candidate Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf played a key role in major human rights violations as the commander of Iran's police forces, Mehrangiz Kar, a lawyer who defended human rights in the Islamic Republic, told the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI). “Mr. Ghalibaf was insistent onÃâà...
CSUN Today
October 5, 2016
They are four women who have gone out into the world and made it better with their scholarship, activism and commitment to excellence. California State University, Northridge will honor actor, producer and political activist Amy Brenneman; writer, attorney and human rights activist Mehrangiz Kar; muralistÃâà...
CSUN Today
August 15, 2016
The Iranian government has made it clear that it doesn't like what Mehrangiz Kar has to say about what is happening in Iran or how Islamic law impacts women. The prominent Iranian lawyer, writer and activist doesn't care. Kar — who has been harassed, imprisoned, exiled and suffered personal tragedy asÃâà...
