Iran: women's rights, women, rights

Irans first female national racing champion Laleh Seddigh has been banned from participating at a race by the country's motor racing authorities.
This happened at Azadistadion in Teheran.
It was the first time she had been excluded from a contest.
"Most of the federation members were not happy to have a female champion and would have preferred a man," she said. "Since I won, they have even eliminated the winner's podium. They were afraid that I would win again and they would be obliged to show me on the podium."
The federation's vice-president, Hossein Shahryari, said Seddigh had been barred because of a government circular restricting women to female-only events. That decree has now been lifted, he said.
But he added: "Women are speaking highly of themselves and that causes men who sacrifice their lives in this sport disappointment. Women are not champions in this sport, they are only participants. If they observed Islamic regulations more they would not have such problems."



Iran sends a movie defending women's rights to represent the Islamic republic at the Academy Awards next year in the best foreign film category,

"Cafe Transit" by Kambosia Partovi tells the story of widowed woman who decides to run her husband's truck-stop restaurant near a border village while fending off solicitations of her brother-in-law, who according to tradition has to marry her as a second wife.
Only films that have been shown in their homeland are eligible for the best foreign film category, effectively disqualifying movies from some of Iran's best-known directors that have failed censorship.




In Iran deathpenalty is in use. Also for child offenders.

Children are being hanged to death.
A child will be hanged to death.
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