Iran arrests women for watching volleyball. Seriously !!

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Iran: End Ban on Women at Volleyball Matches
Volleyball Federation’s Tolerance of Exclusion Brings ‘Shame to the Game’
© 2015 Human Rights Watch



(New York) – Iran should stop preventing women and girls from attending volleyball matches and take further steps to promote gender equality, Human Rights Watch said in opening a digital advocacy campaign to promote respect for women’s rights in the country.


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Women in Iran are prevented from attending men's sports in stadiums (still from animation).


The campaign coincides with the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) Men’s Club World Championship in Brazil, from October 27 to November 1, 2015, and the FIVB’s decision to award Iran hosting rights for the February 2016 FIVB beach volleyball tournament.
“Since 2012, the Iranian government has banned women and girls from volleyball tournaments – and has even arrested women for trying to enter stadiums,” said Minky Worden, director of global initiatives. “It is time for the International Volleyball Federation to act to end this blatant discrimination, which violates its own rules, and brings shame to the game.”

Since 2012, the Iranian government has banned women and girls from volleyball tournaments – and has even arrested women for trying to enter stadiums. It is time for the International Volleyball Federation to act to end this blatant discrimination, which violates its own rules, and brings shame to the game.
Minky Worden
Director of Global Initiatives


Volleyball is a widely popular sport in Iran and a great source of national pride. Among the longstanding, serious rights abuses and discrimination women face in Iran, they are barred from entering sport stadiums, including to watch men’s volleyball matches.
Iranian authorities’ restrictions on women attending sporting events is part and parcel of a larger pattern of discrimination and human rights violations in the country on the basis of gender. As Human Rights Watch has documented, women in Iran confront myriad abuses, including discrimination in personal status laws such as marriage, divorce, and child custody; the unlawful detention of human rights defenders who peacefully advocate women’s rights; and even restrictions on travel. The authorities recently prohibited Niloufar Ardalan, an Iranian women’s national soccer team captain, from participating in the Women’s Futsal Championship in Malaysia after her husband refused to give his permission for her to travel.

The campaign, #Watch4Women, seeks a commitment from the FIVB to exclude Iran from hosting volleyball tournaments until the country ends its discriminatory ban on female spectators. The FIVB has failed to penalize Iran or publicly speak out against the ban, which violates the “Fourth Fundamental Principle” – on nondiscrimination – of the FIVB’s own constitution.

Commenting on the #Watch4Women campaign, two-time volleyball Olympian Lina Taylor said, “The FIVB was one of the first sports federations to insist on equal pay for both men and women. The FIVB can and should make a difference for women and girls in Iran, too.”

The campaign will include regular updates and actions on the Human Rights Watch Facebook and Twitter feeds.

Iran’s discriminatory practices were on full display in June, when it hosted international volleyball matches against Russia and the United States at the Azadi Sports Complex in Tehran as part of the FIVB’s 2015 World League. Officials systematically prevented Iranian women from entering the 12,000-seat stadium to watch the men’s matches.

This male-only policy for spectators at men’s volleyball matches dates to 2012, when the Sports and Youth Affairs Ministry expanded the existing ban on Iranian women at men’s soccer matches to cover volleyball. Iranian officials claim that mixed attendance at sports events is “un-Islamic,” threatens public order, and exposes women to crude behavior by male fans.

“With the #Watch4Women campaign, we seek to spotlight Iran’s ugly discrimination against women and girls,” Worden said. “Ending the ban preventing female spectators from attending volleyball matches would be a symbolically important step toward greater gender equality in Iran and should be a top priority for the FIVB.”


Banning women from volleyball. Yeah, there's a great, forward thinking country. HAHAHAHAHAHA !!!!!

 

[Hussein]

If you knew Iran , it is a long time there is such problem (like for football).
Still some very stupid people have key positions.

Instead of supporting jihadis in Syria or in Egypt, it would be better for USA to have supported greens in Iran for exemple or resistance against islamism in Egypt.

Thx for your sharing anyway.

 

[Madali]

Oh no, this is very important!!! Forget the war in Yemen, Syria, Libya, Iraq, and Palestine. Forget terrorism, regional instability, and western imperialism in the middle East. There is something wayyyy more important.

THERE IS A VOLLEYBALL ISSUE IN IRAN. EVERYONE!! OH NOOOOOOOOOOOOO

 

[Madali]

Instead of supporting jihadis in Syria or in Egypt, it would be better for USA to have supported greens in Iran for exemple or resistance against islamism in Egypt.

Thx for your sharing anyway.

USA did support the greens. If Iran did not prevent the color revolution from getting any further, we'd have a Syria or Libya position on our hands. They would start by claiming they were supporting human rights, and before you know it, guns in people's hands and bombs in market places.

To you Iranians in the west, please please please don't ever try to help us. Please. We're fine. You're fine. Let's all live our lives, okay?

He's just trolling for fun, but I would like him to take the American issue seriously. Because it pains me how much we disrespect woman in this country.

The issue of women is very complicated. Society has given our generation two choices. Like most issues today, the lie we are all told is either be extremely pro-western and copy everything they do, or act like an idiot from a thousand years ago.

The third choice is to present something new. No to forcing women in burkas but also no to a society that makes women think freedom means being pregnant at 14. No to keeping girls at home without education but also no to girls thinking being at home is shameful. No to being a slave to religion, but also no to being a slave to "freedom".

 

[Hussein]

They never supported either, from day one in Egypt, US, Israel and Arab nations began cutting diesel supplies and orchestrating the coup plan. You deny reality too much, 'Jihadies' in Syria are Muslim men who seek change in status quo not just politically but also for society. US has nothing to do with them buddy, you need to accept reality as it is, there are still some remaining holy and pious men on this earth who won't surrender to Iran, US, Arabs or anybody else for that matter even if they all attack and target them. It might be hard to wrap your head around since most humans become corrupt and throw God to the curb.
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I understand USA doesn't care human rights as do even more European countries only caring selling services and products to dictators . I am not dumb. I work in such a company who are playing with some Arab countries and spend their time saying Arabs are retards (not knowing my Arab roots).

Instead of you i believe in a society of free choice : if people want to be bad guys or have different morality it is their choice. i always believed that being muslim is not only a choice but it is a hard job to know what is good or bad in our own life. it is not quite different than christian or jew indeed.
i cannot accept a society forcing people to obey the same religious rules . made by human interpretation and justice.
i cannot accept fighter with salafi or MB ideology, which are basically ideologies of violence and hatred. we think very different on this point, even if we share some same opinions sometimes (west bank, assad)

i don't believe in a sunni superiority stuff and being victims of the shias
this is the real way it happens in ME: kurds , shias, christians, are victims of some extremist sunni groups
but anyway we need to work together to change the region for good, not choosing the sectarian issue

sadly our region is so much into sectarian and corruption
as you don't like corruption you cannot imagine how much i hate so much corruption and would like ALL people have the same chances for success in life and same rights and duties, but again our region is so down

thx for having bad leaders .... countries of the world can just take benefits out of us , so dumb we are

 

[Haroon Syed]

This is so bad on Iran part. Woman is a part of society and they should be independent enough to decide what they want to wear or to do in their life.

@Falcon29 no need to write essay on it as ME or muslim countries are more or less same.

 

[Hussein]

USA did support the greens. If Iran did not prevent the color revolution from getting any further, we'd have a Syria or Libya position on our hands. They would start by claiming they were supporting human rights, and before you know it, guns in people's hands and bombs in market places.

To you Iranians in the west, please please please don't ever try to help us. Please. We're fine. You're fine. Let's all live our lives, okay?.

i am Iranian. you are not more Iranian than me.
and you don't represent much of the people supporting a stupid retard guy like Ahmadinejad who was chosen by the sick spiritual leader my *** Khamenei .

USA never supported greens, except in your propaganda newspapers .

bombs are an usual tool of islamists retards

Ahmadinejad, ultras in Iran are AS MUCH RETARDS AS islamic front , al nusrah in Syria

 

[Madali]

i am Iranian. you are not more Iranian than me.
and you don't represent much of the people supporting a stupid retard guy like Ahmadinejad who was chosen by the sick spiritual leader my *** Khamenei .

USA never supported greens, except in your propaganda newspapers .

bombs are an usual tool of islamists retards

Ahmadinejad, ultras in Iran are AS MUCH RETARDS AS islamic front , al nusrah in Syria

Obviously, you aren't less Iranian, that's not what I meant. But advocating foreign support for the opposition in Iran has proven to be dangerous move historically. If it doesn't go well, the impact won't be on your life, but on the Iranians living in Iran.

Therefore, it makes logical sense, that the only people who should take actions are the ones who's lives are impacted by these actions.

Does that make sense? It's not about who is more or less Iranian, but who faces the consequences more.

 

[SHAMK9]

wtf

 

[Hussein]

Obviously, you aren't less Iranian, that's not what I meant. But advocating foreign support for the opposition in Iran has proven to be dangerous move historically. If it doesn't go well, the impact won't be on your life, but on the Iranians living in Iran.

Therefore, it makes logical sense, that the only people who should take actions are the ones who's lives are impacted by these actions.

Does that make sense? It's not about who is more or less Iranian, but who faces the consequences more.

thx but my family is living in Iran .

impact on people. yes sure . that's why people should really choose the regime they want. i am not Iran myself.

anyway i understand when you say about foreign support :
we have terrible bad experiences in the past . and still some bad guys (a real minority in west) supporting MeK for exemple. it makes pain to read their propaganda there. like it is pain for exemple nowadays when i am seing "an Iranian" who never lived in Iran who made a movie about Iran he doesn't know: he made movie with lot of fantasm and stupid things said about Iran . but this guy (lot of Iranians outside i agree just don't care about Iran) is making money our of bullshit: he knows people here would be happy to hear how Iran is terrible.
it is a reality Iran suffering a very bad image in foreign countries because of our bad leaders .
it is as well a reality that Iran having huge potentials (people educated, rich culture and history, ...) and that we could be a leading country , in the top 10 of the world for sure.
sadly we are not. i would probably die without seeing our country having its deserved position in the world...
i am not like these retards who hate Iran so much and say still "they are Iranians".

 

[Husnainshah]

Iran's(along with Saudi) one of THE most backwards country. The only difference between Iran and Saudi is,
Iran doesn't have(or doesn't seem to have) proxies blowing up people all over the world.

 

[boomslang]

...THERE IS A VOLLEYBALL ISSUE IN IRAN. EVERYONE!! OH NOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Yeah, that's all it is.

 

[MEAGAN FOXSS]

HAHAHAHA Backward Iranians . . . . . . . .

 

[Hussein]

But Palestinians in West Bank we have more people like that but it's decreasing every day.

lot of muslims (and nn muslims, like majority of French people i am sure about) have pain to know west bank suffering and how some Israelis decided to take the lands of others.
it is painful and ... what can do people about it ... not much indeed.
most people in the world (like Asia you said) they just try to survive , live their life in dignity. you cannot blame them especially for a land that is not theirs. you know most Arab leaders would never support against Israel.
So maybe the best solution is not violence but diplomatic : lot of people are convinced in the world: transform this to a big organization to help the people there .. why not even sponsor/help financially any political group in Israel that would be ok with giving back west bank to Palestinians. ...

 

[Madali]

Yeah, that's all it is.

If there is a list of top 1000 things important things in the middle East, this won't even make the list.

What's next? Iranian metro is segregated by gender. Oh shit, the end is near, life is hell, nuke everyone.

Priorities, dude, priorities.

thx but my family is living in Iran .

impact on people. yes sure . that's why people should really choose the regime they want. i am not Iran myself.

anyway i understand when you say about foreign support :
we have terrible bad experiences in the past . and still some bad guys (a real minority in west) supporting MeK for exemple. it makes pain to read their propaganda there. like it is pain for exemple nowadays when i am seing "an Iranian" who never lived in Iran who made a movie about Iran he doesn't know: he made movie with lot of fantasm and stupid things said about Iran . but this guy (lot of Iranians outside i agree just don't care about Iran) is making money our of bullshit: he knows people here would be happy to hear how Iran is terrible.
it is a reality Iran suffering a very bad image in foreign countries because of our bad leaders .
it is as well a reality that Iran having huge potentials (people educated, rich culture and history, ...) and that we could be a leading country , in the top 10 of the world for sure.
sadly we are not. i would probably die without seeing our country having its deserved position in the world...
i am not like these retards who hate Iran so much and say still "they are Iranians".

I believe in my favorite proverb ever,
The devilnyou know is better than the devil you don't know.

We evolve and progress day by day. Destiny is in our hands and not in big revolutions anymore. It's in each single Iranian doing his best to imrpove his country, and this as simple as wasting less water and not throwing litter on the ground. I believe in small things.