Faezeh Hashemi

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Faezeh Hashemi in December 2015

Faezeh Hāschemi Rafsanjāni ( Persian فائزه هاشمی رفسنجانی; * 1962) is an Iranian politician and the daughter of former President Akbar Hāschemi Rafsanjāni .

Faezeh Hashemi is a public advocate for women's rights in patriarchal Iran. She already broke some taboos, so she promoted women's sport and cycling in public. She was the first politician who dared to wear jeans under her chador.

In the election for the fifth Majles , the Iranian parliament in Tehran , it surprisingly received the second most votes after Nateq Nuri . There were rumors that she might even have reached the top spot, but it would have been unthinkable for a woman to win against a religious leader in Iran.

Although more women were elected to parliament than ever before (14 out of 290 seats) in 1996, no improvements in women's rights have been achieved. Two laws were even passed that further restricted the rights of women: doctors are only allowed to treat patients of the same sex and, moreover, images and discussions of women are no longer allowed to be published. It was no longer possible to continue the discussion on women's rights. In 1999, Hashemi's own newspaper, Zan, was banned.

It was not re-elected for the next legislative period in 2000. Faezeh Haschemi is currently the head of the Islamic Federation of Women Sport .

For an interview, which was published on the Rooz Online website , Faezeh Hashemi stood before the Tehran Revolutionary Court and judge Abolqasem Salavati , who was notorious for his death sentences, with charges of anti-regime propaganda . In the interview, she said that Iran was ruled by thugs and crooks. She was held in Evin Prison from September 2012 to March 2013 .

In May 2016 she visited Fariba Kamalabadi, a senior member of the Iranian Bahai community . Kamalabadi, who was sentenced to twenty years' imprisonment for “spying for Israel”, “insulting religious shrines” and “propaganda against the system” in the context of the religious persecution of the Baha'i in Iran in 2008, was on five-day imprisonment at the time. Hashemi, who Kamalabadi had met during her own imprisonment, was exposed to severe hostility from conservative politicians and the press as a result of the visit. Her father described the visit as a "big mistake that needs to be corrected".

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  1. ^ Translation service Julia's blog: Judge Salavati leads the trial against Faezeh Hashemi
  2. ↑ Christian Meier: A cup of tea with consequences. The daughter of an ayatollah started a debate on the situation of the Baha'i in Iran . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, June 9, 2016, p. 8.
  3. ↑ Kasra Naji: Political storm in Iran as Rafsanjani's daughter meets Bahai leader. BBC News, May 18, 2016, accessed May 19, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Hashemi, faezeh
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hashemi Rafsanjani, Faezeh
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Iranian politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1962