Iran: case of Farinaz Khosravani remains under legal investigations

With one and half a month since the tragic death of Farinaz Khosravani, the Kurdish young girl who jumped to her death from the fourth floor of the hotel building she used to work to save her honor and avoid a sexual aggression by an Iranian intelligence officer, her case is still open, despite the government attempt to shut the case and avoid an embarrassment for the whole dictatorial regime. 
Various reports indicate that the case of the “Mahabad incident” (regarding the death of Farinaz Khosravani) has been closed by Iran’s Minister of Interior, the lawyer following up on this portfolio said, “This case remains open and investigations are continuing. The Khosravani family has filed a lawsuit against Nader Moludi, the owner of Hotel Tara, and the main suspect of this case by the name of Morteza Hashemi-vand.”

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IRAN - SITUATION FOR WOMEN POINTS TO WORSENING CHALLENGES FOR ALL IRANIANS

INU - In our coverage yesterday of the launch of an official matchmaking website in the Islamic Republic of Iran, we pointed out that this attempt to promote speedy marriage and traditional families is of a piece with a broader effort by Iran’s leaders to crack down on the rights of women and to reassert conservative clerical control over the structure of Iranian society.

We referred, for instance, to the growth in efforts to enforce the imposed veiling of women, as by empowering civilian militias to accost women considered to be wearing “bad hejab.” On Wednesday, IranWire reported on an instance of the continued pressure toward such measures. The site pointed out that Ayatollah Jafar Sobhani, one of the highest ranking clerics in the Iranian religious center of Qom, had encouraged security forces and others to “act beyond the law” for the sake of enforcing “good hejab.”

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