This newsletter marks the launch of the SVAW campaign. On 5 March Amnesty International launched its worldwide campaign to STOP VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN. With marches, demonstrations, flags and music, Amnesty International members and supporters declared to the world that this human rights scandal...

Violence against women is a global outrage. The experience or threat of violence affects the lives of women everywhere, cutting across boundaries of wealth, race and culture. In the home and in the community, in times of war and peace, women are beaten, raped, mutilated and killed with impunity....

The experience or threat of violence affects the lives of women everywhere, cutting across boundaries of wealth, race and culture. This 12-page leaflet summarises ACT 77/001/2004 and covers: A human rights scandal; Roots of violence; Multiple jeopardy; Long-tern damage, widespread harm; Violence...

Kobra Rahmanpour was not executed on 28 February. Although she is still under sentence of death, she is no longer believed to be in imminent danger of execution.

According to the newspaper Ete’mad, Kobra Rahmanpour is to be executed on 28 February 2004. Her only hope of escaping execution is for the family of her alleged victim to decide to accept payment of blood money (diyeh) rather than retribution in kind (qesas-e nafs).

Kobra Rahmanpour’s death sentence has been temporarily stayed by Ayatollah Shahroudi, the Head of the Judiciary, and will not be carried out until further notice.

Kobra Rahmanpour was reportedly arrested on 5 November 2000 for killing her mother-in-law. Despite a plea that she was acting in self-defence after her mother-in-law tried to attack her with a kitchen knife, she was sentenced to death by Branch 1608 of Tehran’s Criminal Court, on or around 1...

Amnesty International fears that Kobra Rahmanpour is at risk of imminent execution. She was sentenced to death for the premeditated murder of her mother-in-law in 2000, and her husband, the victim’s son, has demanded that the death sentence be carried out. It is alleged that Kobra Rahmanpour was...

This bulletin contains information about Amnesty International’s main concerns in Europe between January and June 2003.

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