Iranian Woman, Arezou Badri, Shot By Iranian Police Over Hijab Law Left Paralyzed, Says Activist
New Age Islam News Bureau
28 December 2024
· Iranian Woman, ArezouBadri, Shot By Iranian Police Over Hijab Law Left Paralyzed, Says Activist
· Iran Honours Female Trailblazers During Women's Week
· No, That's Not Kuwait Queen With Pm Modi In This Viral Image, The Woman Is A Yoga PractitionerShaikha AJ Al-Sabah
· Taliban Flog WomanOn Charges Of Theft In Public In Northern Afghanistan
· How Sisterhood Of Writers Helped Afghan Women Through Taliban Takeover
· UAE President Confers Zayed Second Medal On President Of Indigenous Women And Peoples Association Of Chad
Compiled by New Age Islam News Bureau
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Iranian Woman, ArezouBadri, Shot By Iranian Police Over Hijab Law Left Paralyzed, Says Activist
28 December 2024
Arezoo Badri
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ArezouBadri, 31, has been left paralyzed after she was shot by Iranian police earlier this year for allegedly violating mandatory hijab laws, according to activist and journalist Masih Alinejad.
Citing Badri’s relatives, Alinejad on Friday said doctors determined that the bullet severed Badri’s spinal cord, preventing her from ever walking again.
“Her only ‘crime’ was defying mandatory hijab laws,” Alinejad wrote on X, adding that Badri remains hospitalized amid pressure from authorities on her family to keep silent.
Badri was shot on July 22 while returning home with her sister in Nour County, northern Mazandaran Province.
Reports obtained by Iran International revealed that police opened fire from the rear driver's side of the car stopped on a dirt road, striking Badri in the back and severely damaging her spinal cord and lungs.
A seizure order had been issued for the vehicle in which Badri was a passenger, allegedly due to a violation of Iran's mandatory hijab law. Police issue vehicle seizure alerts if the driver or a passenger are seen without hijab in a car.
The Information Center of the Mazandaran Police Command confirmed the police shooting at the car in which Badri was a passenger, saying that the driver "continued to flee despite police orders, prompting the police to shoot at the car according to the law on the use of firearms."
Badri’s family filed a complaint and the case was heard in early August, however the family was dissatisfied with the outcome and the judicial process.
Following the court hearing, informed sources told Iran International that Badri's relatives were summoned by intelligence and security agencies, pressured to stay silent and urged to withdraw their complaint.
Badri’s case fueled outrage and condemnation from rights groups, who view it as another example of Iran’s escalating violence against women over the hijab.
In 2024, Iranian authorities took action against 30,629 women over allegedly failing to observe compulsory hijab laws, with at least 644 of those women arrested for improper veiling, according to US-based rights group HRANA.
Source: iranintl.com
https://www.iranintl.com/en/202412273579
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Iran Honours Female Trailblazers During Women's Week
28 December 2024
Gisoo Misha Ahmadi
Press TV, Tehran
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In Iran, the birth anniversary of Lady Fatima (PBUH) is celebrated as Mother's Day while the entire week is marked as Women's Week, honouring the achievements and contributions of women in society. This report has taken the opportunity to shine a spotlight on female trailblazers who have left an indelible mark on the country's progress and development.
Source: presstv.ir
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/12/28/739849/Iran-honors-female-trailblazers
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No, That's Not Kuwait Queen With Pm Modi In This Viral Image, The Woman Is A Yoga PractitionerShaikha AJ Al-Sabah
28 Dec 2024'
Screenshot of a social media post shared with a false claim that the woman seen with PM Modi in an image is the queen of Kuwait.
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A post going viral on social media (here, here, and here) features Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaking with a woman. The post claims that the woman is the queen of Kuwait, dressed in casual attire without hijab. This post is shared in the context of Prime Minister Modi’s visit to Kuwait in December 2024. Let’s verify the claim made in the post through this article.
Fact: The woman in the viral photo has been identified as Shaikha AJ Al-Sabah, an avid yoga practitioner and the founder of Kuwait’s first licensed yoga studio, ‘Daratma.’ Prime Minister Narendra Modi met her, along with other influencers from the Gulf region, on 22 December 2024 in Kuwait. Hence, the claim made in the post is FALSE.
A Google lens search of the viral photo led us to several reports (here, here, and here) (archived here, here, and here) featuring the same photo. These reports identified her as Shaikha AJ Al-Sabah, an avid yoga practitioner and the founder of Kuwait’s first licensed yoga studio, ‘Daratma,’. Prime Minister Narendra Modi met her along with other influencers from the Gulf country on 22 December 2024.
We also found an X post by PM Modi, dated 22 December 2024, where he shared his experience of meeting Shaikha AJ Al-Sabah.
Met HH Shaikha AJ Al-Sabah in Kuwait. She has distinguished herself for her passion towards Yoga and fitness. She has established her own Yoga and wellness studio, which is quite popular in Kuwait. We talked about ways to make Yoga more popular among the youth. pic.twitter.com/0pjMxWwUDe
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) December 22, 2024
We also found an Instagram post by the Ministry of External Affairs featuring the same photo of PM Modi meeting Shaikha A J Al-Sabah identifying her as a yoga practitioner and the founder of Kuwait’s first licensed yoga studio, ‘Daratma.’
However, we did not find any credible sources indicating that Kuwait has an official title or position of “Queen.” The country is currently governed by Sheikh Meshal Al Ahmad Al Jaber Al Sabah,
To sum up, a photo of a yoga practitioner from Kuwait with PM Modi is being misrepresented as that of the queen of Kuwait.
Source: abplive.com
https://news.abplive.com/fact-check/image-of-yoga-practitioner-with-pm-modi-shared-as-that-of-kuwait-queen-1740300
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Taliban Flog WomanOn Charges Of Theft In Public In Northern Afghanistan
By Mujeeb Rahman AwrangStanikzai
28 Dec 2024
Taliban publicly flogged a woman 39 times in the Andkhoi district of Faryab province on charges of theft, according to a statement issued by the Taliban-run Supreme Court.
The incident is the latest in a series of public punishments carried out by the Taliban.
Over the past two months, Taliban have flogged nearly 150 people in various provinces.
Human rights organizations have condemned these actions, calling them violations of international human rights norms. Amnesty International has urged the Taliban to cease corporal punishments, citing concerns over the absence of fair trials in their judicial system.
Despite international criticism, the Taliban have continued public punishments
Source: amu.tv
https://amu.tv/146862/
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How sisterhood of writers helped Afghan women through Taliban takeover
December 27, 2024
WASHINGTON — Marie Bamyani was in a taxi in Kabul on Aug. 15, 2021, when she learned that the Taliban had entered the Afghan capital.
"I felt like a glass that breaks at once," said Bamyani, who is now 29.
At the time, Bamyani worked with a German aid organization.
She said she was too young in the 1990s to remember much about the previous period of Taliban rule.
The only thing that came to her mind were horrific images in the media of the Taliban executing a woman in a soccer stadium in the late '90s.
For her, the return of the Taliban meant "death for Afghan women."
The Taliban quickly imposed repressive measures against women. In a state of shock, Bamyani remembers not daring to step outside of her house for weeks. "I was feeling numb," she told VOA.
The only thing she did was share her experience in a WhatsApp chat group with 20 other women.
Those messages, collected over that first year of Taliban rule and translated into English from Dari and Pashto, are now published as a diary in the book, My Dear Kabul.
Published in 2024 in Britain, the book captures firsthand the changes to women's freedoms seen in the first year, and for some, their thoughts watching the situation in Afghanistan from overseas.
For Bamyani, she continued contributing to the chat group even after being evacuated to Germany in October of that year.
"We just shared our feelings about the situation in the country," she said, adding that they never thought the messages would one day be a book.
The women were part of a writer development program, started in 2019 by Untold Narratives. At the time of the takeover, they were preparing to release a separate book, My Pen Is the Wing of a Bird. That book, released in 2022, is a collection of short fiction stories, written by Afghan women.
Lucy Hannah, the founder of Untold Narratives and a coeditor of My Dear Kabul, told VOA that the WhatsApp messages were collected at the writers' request.
"It is important to hear from women's voices," said Hannah. It is also important to hear "from voices that are not necessarily journalists, that are working people whose lives are directly affected by what is going around them who also happen to be creative writers."
She said that the 21 contributors, ages 22 to 65, were from different ethnic groups.
Another contributor, Fatima Saadat, told VOA that she and the women in the chat wanted a safe place to share, without hesitation, "what came to their mind at that moment."
Saadat left Kabul a week before the fall of Kabul, to start on her master's degree in women's and gender studies as a Fulbright scholar in the U.S.
"I couldn't believe that in a few days after I left, something like that would happen," she said. "I wanted to know how the girls [in the group] were doing."
Saadat said it was "an act of courage" that these women posted what they were feeling and experiencing.
"This encouraged me when I read their messages, and I started [sharing] my feelings while in the U.S.," she said.
"As a woman, my fear was about my human rights, women's rights," she said. "The return of the Taliban meant the return of conflict, horror and backwardness to Afghanistan."
It is painful when one can't get an education, leave the house, and make choices in life, said Saadat. "Your life becomes a prison."
Since the August 2021 takeover, the Taliban have imposed rules and regulations on women and girls: They are barred from secondary and university education, working with the government and non-government organizations, traveling long distances without being accompanied by a male relative, and going to public baths and restaurants.
But, Saadat said, "Writing is the thing that the Taliban can't take away from us."
Other Afghan female writers have welcomed the book's release.
ParvinMalal, who writes poetry and fiction about women, conflict and refugees, told VOA it is important for Afghan women to write about their experiences.
Writing helps people when "going through crises and dealing with mental issues," said Malal, who is originally from Kandahar.
In a December report, Rawadari, an Afghanistan-focused rights group based outside the country, found deterioration of mental health and an increase in suicide attempts and child and forced marriages among girls in Afghanistan.
"As a result of the ban on women's education, violence against women increased, which has made life difficult for girls and women" in Afghanistan, the report said.
For Bamyani, she believes the current situation in Afghanistan will not remain the same.
"I am optimistic and hopeful that it will not be forever, but I hope that people inside Afghanistan will not suffer for long," she said.
Source: voazimbabwe.com
https://www.voazimbabwe.com/a/how-sisterhood-of-writers-helped-afghan-women-through-taliban-takeover/7916431.html
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UAE President confers Zayed Second Medal on President of Indigenous Women and Peoples Association of Chad
Dec 28, 2024
Abu Dhabi [UAE (/topic/uae)], December 28 (ANI/WAM): UAE (/topic/uae) President Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan (/topic/mohamed-bin-zayed-alnahyan) has conferred the Zayed the Second Medal on HindouOumarou Ibrahim (/topic/hindou-oumarou-ibrahim), President of the Indigenous Women and Peoples Association of Chad (/topic/chad), in recognition of her prominent contributions to the success of the 28th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP28), which was hosted in the UAE (/topic/uae) last year. Rashid Saeed Al Shamsi (/topic/rashid-saeed-al-shamsi), UAE (/topic/uae) Ambassador to the Republic of Chad (/topic/chad), presented the medal to Oumarou Ibrahim, who expressed her sincere gratitude and appreciation to Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan (/topic/mohamed-binzayed-al-nahyan) for this award. Oumarou Ibrahim also commended the historic UAE (/topic/uae) Consensus concluded in COP28, which has since become a critical reference framework for global climate action and sustainability. or his part, Al Shamsi congratulated Oumarou Ibrahim on the award and commended Chad (/topic/chad)'s participation in COP28 and its support of the historic UAE (/topic/uae) Consensus, which fosters coordination and collaboration to safeguard humanity and the planet. (ANI/WAM)
Source: aninews.in
https://www.aninews.in/news/world/middle-east/uae-president-confers-zayed-second-medal-on-president-of-indigenous-women-and-peoples-association-of-chad20241228054455/
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