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Women in Shroud
- Injustice for Women in Iranian Legal System - Film
Women in Shroud is a documentary about the violent injustice in the Iranian legal system, particularly towards women. Through verité footage and interviews with women who were accused (often without adequate proof) of adultery and sentenced to the death penalty, and interviews with several dedicated women's rights activists and a volunteer lawyer who have helped to appeal and to overturn these women's death sentences, the film exposes the arbitrary and highly subjective nature of Iranian judicial justice, and the discriminatory cultural and moral double-standards applied by the judges towards sentencing women they believed to be guilty of adulterous behaviour.
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http://www.wluml.org/media/documentary-screening-women-shroud
DOCUMENTARY SCREENING - WOMEN IN SHROUD
Documentary directed by Farid Haerinejad and Mohammed Reza Kazemi. Women in Shroud provides an in-depth look into the efforts of women's rights lawyers and activists to stop the stoning of women in Iran.
This event is part of the Stop Stoning Women – Global Campaign.
Prominent Iranian Human Rights Lawyer Shadi Sadr, who features in the film, will be part of the panel discussion after the screening.
6:30 pm, Tuesday, July 2nd, 2013.
Brockway Room, Conway Hall, - London WC1R 4RL