Maryam Rajavi's message on the International Day for elimination of Violence against Women

Maryam Rajavi: The prime source of violence against women is Islamic fundamentalism

Paying homage to Iranian women on the International Day to End Violence against Women

On the "International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women", an exhibition on violence against Iranian women was on display at Auvers-sur-Oise, France, headquarters of the opposition National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI).

The exhibition was opened November 25th by the Iranian Resistance's President-elect Maryam Rajavi's visit.

Members of the Iranian Resistance, themselves victims of the Iranian regime's violence against women were also in attendance. They included Elham Zanjani, who was seriously wounded in the April 8, 2011 attack on Camp Ashraf; Niloofar and Shaghayegh Azimi whose imprisoned mother has been arrested and tortured multiple times by the regime; Zohreh Shafaii,

The daughter of an Iranian political prisoner warns of a looming Threat to her father

Hejrat Moezi and her father, political prisoner, Ali Moezi

'My father is a political prisoner facing an imminent threat to his life in prison in Iran'

 Describing a person’s life is never easy, especially when that person is someone you cherish. Ali Moezi is my father, he is a political prisoner in Iran, and I fear losing him with each passing second, Hijrat Moezi wrote as it published in World Post

Before I was even born, my father experienced the mullah’s prisons. In 1980, when the theocratic dictatorship took control of Iran, my father was arrested and tortured. He had been among those who stood in opposition to their tyrannical rule, and paid the price with several years of torture in the regime’s prisons.

My father was educated at the University of Karaj in agricultural engineering, and could have worked towards building up his homeland; Instead, he has spent years, off and on, behind bars. The theocracy has made it such that everyone finds himself leading a life unsuitable to their vocation: our scholars rest imprisoned while thieves and criminals are in government.

I recall asking him, when I was a child,What happened to your knee?’ to which he responded, 'it was hit by a bullet.' Only when I was older did I learn that he participated in peaceful demonstrations in Tehran in June1981and during his escape, he was shot and then subjected to hours of painstaking torture.At the time, my father would have been the same age I am now, 26The whip marks left by his torturers can still be seen on the soles of his feet and his back.

Throughout my childhood, the thought of my parents’ arrest was my greatest nightmare. But one day, I myself decided to stand up against this government. I moved to Camp Ashraf and left my country for Iraq, where thousands of refugees and Iranian dissidents lived in a place that was our only hope for freedom. I remember, on my last day in Iran, looking into my father’s eyes and asking if I’d ever see him again...