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Hope for Saudi women

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On July 20, 2013
  • 5 Comments
  • Saudi, sex apartheid, women
Did you hear the latest? Women in Hafar Al-Batin, Saudi Arabia have been banned from using the library. Their male guardian has to take out books for them. But not to worry – hope is on hand in the form of the findings of last year’s all-male conference on “women in society” pictured below. Or […]
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Ana Lama

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On February 4, 2013
  • 21 Comments
  • Anna Lama, Islam, Lama, Saudi, Sharia
Update: Sign a petition calling for justice for Lama here. Cleric sheikh Fayhan Al Ghamdi, a regular on Islamic channels, was absolved and made to pay blood money (only half of what he would have had to pay had he killed a boy) for raping and torturing his five year old daughter Lama last October; he had custody […]
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Forget breasts, cover those tempting eyes!

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On November 19, 2011
  • 15 Comments
  • Islam, religion, Saudi, veil, women
The Saudi Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice (yes, it’s really their name), can order women with ‘tempting’ eyes to cover them up.
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