Peace, love, and women's rights under Islam

at least gays are allowed to hang out together

Taliban vows to publicly stone women to death in direct message to Western democracies

Taliban leader says women's rights violate their interpretation of sharia

The Shias who rule Iran are no better.

BBC, 7 February 2019:

Iranian women - before and after the Islamic Revolution

And:

March 21, 2024

More than 120 protesters blinded by Iranian agents, probe confirms

UC Berkeley’s Human Rights Center says the victims, most aged 30 and under, suffered partial or full loss of sight in the government crackdown on protests demanding women’s rights.

The Human Rights Center at UC Berkeley has verified for the first time that roughly 120 people lost some or all of their sight when Iranian security agents firing shotguns, paintball guns and even tear gas canisters cracked down on women’s rights protests that erupted in late 2022.

Center investigators stop short of saying that security forces broadly intended to blind the protesters. But some of the victims were shot in the face at close range, and evidence in other cases also supports that conclusion, according to analysis presented Tuesday (March 19) during a side event as the U.N. Human Rights Council met in Geneva, Switzerland.

Many of the victims were students, and the majority were 30 years old or younger, according to Berkeley’s student-led investigative team. One confirmed victim was a 5-year-old girl standing on a balcony as demonstrations took place on the street below.

“As I reviewed photos of injuries and videos of protestors being beaten and shot at, I saw people who were young, like me, and also many women, like me,” said senior Melinda Zou, a co-leader of the team.

“I saw the bravery of people our age — university students taking to the streets and putting their lives on the line — and that really resonated with me.”

Alexa Koenig, faculty co-director of the Human Rights Center, said the data presented by Berkeley and its partners eventually could serve as evidence in prosecutions to hold Iranian leaders and their agents accountable in international legal bodies.

In the meantime, Koenig added, the findings “can be used by journalists, human rights advocates and others to bring more attention to what's happening on the ground in Iran — and to advocate for a better future for the people who really are suffering the effects of government crackdowns.”