Women's History Month in Iran

Iran: Police Attack Women's Day Celebration
09 Mar 2006 18:27:40 GMT
Source: Human Rights Watch

(New York, March 9, 2006) – Iranian police and plainclothes agents yesterday charged a peaceful assembly of women's rights activists in Tehran and beat hundreds of women and men who had gathered to commemorate International Women's Day, Human Rights Watch said today. The attack took place shortly after participants in the celebration assembled at Tehran's Daneshjoo Park at 4 P.M. on Wednesday, March 8.

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