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Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Can I take your last question first? As a woman, you don't have to be raped to feel violated. There are many ways of raping a woman, psychologically and emotionally. I think this is what some governments have learned to do. When you talk about a woman's body in her presence and

May 11th, 2017Committee meeting

Asma Jahangir

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  As far as social media is concerned, I don't depend on every report I get from social media. I verify my reports from inside Iran, most of the time. I salute the people inside Iran who have, despite everything, fought hard to communicate to the outside world. This emphasizes how

May 11th, 2017Committee meeting

Asma Jahangir

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Thank you very much. Let me, for example, start with the aspect that If you are dissenting and you're a man, you're treated badly, but if you're a woman, you are treated even worse. That is a distinction that I would draw there. Women lawyers who dissent, for example, will be r

May 11th, 2017Committee meeting

Asma Jahangir

May 11th, 2017Committee meeting

Asma Jahangir

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I don't know in what area you want me to deliver my remarks on Iran. I'm afraid I'm poorly assisted in this way; I did not have the agenda of what area you want me to address. Generally speaking, I know that's it's human rights, but if you want me to address you in the sense of w

May 11th, 2017Committee meeting

Asma Jahangir

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Thank you very much. My first statement would be that I am extremely concerned about the upsurge in arrests of people who are people political activists. When I say “political activists” that doesn't mean they belong to political parties, but they are people who are politically

May 11th, 2017Committee meeting

Asma Jahangir

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Sorry, I can't hear you properly.

May 11th, 2017Committee meeting

Asma Jahangir