India, July 25 -- According to the Amnesty International (AI), Iranian authorities are using incommunicado detention, prolonged solitary confinement and threats against family members, in order to extract forced video "confessions" from women's rights defenders detained for campaigning against the country's discriminatory, forced veiling (Hijab) laws.
Philip Luther, Research and Advocacy Director for the Middle East and North Africa at Amnesty International said, "Threatened by the momentum behind a growing women's rights movement against Iran's forced veiling laws, the Iranian authorities are employing crude tactics to discredit activists campaigning against forced veiling, dissuade others from joining the movement and instill fear in soc...