Bøger af Maryam Hosseinkhah

'Forgotten Women', tells the life stories of 14 women incarcerated in the public ward of Evin Prison in Tehran, Iran. Some narrations reflect documented lives, some are constructed as a mixture of imagination and reality, at times using pieces from the lives of other female prisoners or incidents happening in the daily life of the ward, and some others are comprised of the exact manuscripts of women longing to be heard from the behind the bars.

Thirty-five Years of Forced Hijab: The Widespread and Systematic Violation of Women's Rights in Iran points out over the past ten years more than 30,000 women have faced arrest throughout Iran due to hijab laws. It also shows how a high number of women are not only exposed to insult, harassment and physical abuse at the hands of the authorities, but that they also face detention and various forms of torture, including lashing. The report documents over past 35 years many women have been deprived of education, employment, driving, travelling by air, access to public medical services as well as cultural and recreational facilities because of their hijab. The report describes the process of arrest and prosecution of women based on the charge of improper Islamic hijab and unjust sentences. It also presents an overview of the psychological abuse where in some cases women have faced death or suicide. However, it also highlights an important historical fact that despite 35 years of violent enforcement measures, Iranian women continue to resist Hijab laws and through their daily struggles.