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Kurdish woman singer threatened with
"honour killing" in Iran
5.7.2005
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Iran-Kurdistan,
July 4 - Poet and musician Naze Ezizi from eastern
Kurdistan (northwestern Iran) was called to a
security office in Mahabad where she was told,
"Woman singing is against the law. The punishment is
honour killing”. Iranian officials also warned all
the Kurdish newspapers not to publish Ezizi’s poems
in their daily editions.
Ezizi lives in Tehran but at the time of call from
the Mahabad security office, she was visiting her
parents in Mahabad. When she was in the security
office, she was threatened and warned for the songs
she sang.
Security officers told Ezizi, "We are against the women singing. The
punishment for people like you is honour killing or
being stoned”. One of the ethnic Turkish members of
the security personnel Peyxember Nejad asked Ezizi,
"Why are your songs being played on Kurdistan TV”
and wanted the singer to complain to Kurdistan TV
about "Playing Muslim woman’s songs on their TV
station”.
Ezizi told them "I will never betray them and I
thank them for playing my songs”
Poems are prohibited
The security office fined her 600,000 Iran Rials
(US$67) and told her that if she continues to sing
songs the punishment will change to regm (honour
killing).
She reacted by saying that all of her poems have
been prohibited from all the Kurdish and Persian
language newspapers in Iran. She pointed that before
the ban many of the publications published her poems
weekly in their columns and asked her to send more
of her poems, but she said the government creates a
lot of obstacles to her voice being heard.
‘Women’s image and voice belongs to her husband’
Ezizi said, "Art is my life. There is no meaning for
me to be alive if my poems and songs are not allowed
to exist” and "Even if I have been threatened with
being "honour killed”, I will not give up my art”
Security officers also told Ezizi that,”Your songs
have been played in Iraqi Kurdistan during the
Hatemi period but now we have real Islamic justice
and it is the time of emperor Ahmednejad‘s regime.
We will not let everybody do as they wish. Women
should stay home and should use her image and voice
to entertain her husband and not anybody else”
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