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Persianbanoo - Narges Mohamadi, the deputy head of Iran’s Defenders of Human Rights Center has written a letter to Tehran’s Prosecutor General.

Radio Zamaneh - Jailed activist Nargess Mohammadi is suffering from deteriorating health in Zanjan Prison, according to her husband, Taghi Rahmani.

New York Times - When Shoukoufeh, an English literature student from a backwater town, set out to rent an apartment for herself here in the capital, she first stopped at a jewelry store and picked up a $5 wedding ring.

Radio Zamaneh - Scores of women who wanted to attend a concert at Milad Tower in Tehran on Monday were arrested by police.

Radio Zamaneh - More than 400 activists have issued a statement calling for the release of Manijeh Najm Eraghi, a jailed Iranian writer, translator and women’s rights activist.

Roozonline - Tehran Launches Center for Temporary Marriages

France 24 - Female booth attendants at an international trade fair and shops selling men's ties have become targets in a strict crackdown by Tehran police on clothing deemed un-Islamic, Iranian media reported on Wednesday.

Shahrzadnews - Though paid less than their male co-workers, Iranian women have to deal with a tougher working environment, according to a leading labour-affairs expert. Head of Iran’s state-run Women’s Labour Organisation Soheila Jolodar-Zadeh says: “With the unbridled increase in the cost of living, and the fall in the value of our currency, the members of many working-class families, children in particular, are in serious danger of physical and mental problems. This is in spite of the fact that most family members are in some form of employment.”