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A Letter By Ms. Zeynab Bayezidi activist
of human rights of Iranian Kurdistan
23.2.2009
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Women’s prison is the symbol of Male ideological
fanaticism.
February
23, 2009
As a wife of a husband, as a sister of a brother, as
a daughter of a father, women are suffering from
their slavery status and cry out that are not
recognized as a “Woman”. Woman is known as something
owned by “men”; as one of his belongings. Woman is
embellished and well presented as goods to be sold,
sometimes she is hidden, and she is stoned,
strangled and thrown away. She is forced to do
humiliating jobs, she is treated like a money making
machine and her body and soul captivated. |
Zeynab Bayezidi |
She is misled and she
has left no choice but to follow the Male made
direction. She is the puppet of a deteriorated
society ruled by Men and she is used as the guardian
of their wealth and strength.
She does not have the right to live and decide for
her own. She belongs to others. Governments
manufacture their own “Woman”. Capitalist countries
adorn and decorate their own fabricated products;
above all and one of the best produced ever known as
“Woman”. These countries use Churches and Mosques to
implement their own policies; their ideal
achievement is executing fanatic and degrading
ideology of “Male Chauvinism”. In general, they have
treated Woman not as a human being but as an
obedient sheep, or as an attractive fragile
mannequin who is placed in shiny flashy windows to
promote their goods and products, and play her role
upon customers’ demands; sometimes she is dancing
and alluring their fascinated customers and
sometimes cover herself under as demanded; last but
not least she should be able to be converted into a
productive machine whenever needed.
In anyways those governments are terrified of Woman
active role and presence in society, they are well
aware that when woman is self conscious and
recognizes her status in a society, she will be
overwhelmed and her wrathful reaction endangers
their interest and money, as a matter of fact their
plans would be ruined and demolished.
This situation is getting worth in 3rd world
countries and the countries which their policy is
based upon religious believe.
Dominant cultural rituals result in over looking
Women Rights in so called countries; they misuse
Religion as a functional tool to execute slavery
system upon women.
Iran is one of those countries in which women are
denominated in 3 groups:
1st Group: unsuccessful / disobedient women: those
are the women who cannot tolerate the situation
while they are unable to find the roots of their
problems and solve it. They run away to find a
better situation but they are running away
themselves. Though finally they even never could
find themselves. Even though they are looking
everywhere to find a method to break these imposed
restrictions; they wander everywhere and relate to
everyone but they hardly can find any solution for
their problems. Consequently due to unhealthy social
situation they are swallowed by corrupted
environment. Since these women have no definition of
what they are and what they are looking for,www.ekurd.netthey
won’t be able to fit into new situation while they
are losing their past status. They cannot neither go
back to their past status nor they aren’t stimulated
enough to gain any achievement. They are disgraced,
harassed and hurt and stepped to a path ended in
death.
These women in Iran are called corrupted and
prostitutes.
2nd Group: suppressing women: they are trained and
employed by government in low level jobs. They are
paid and hired to suppress mainly the victims of 1st
group. Iranian Government calls these women as
successful and socially active citizens. However
they are hardly able to communicate with others and
by a brief review of their childhood, they have
experienced very strict religious restrictions in
their private lives. More and more they have
accepted imposed slavery system as a definite
verdict. They hide themselves under Black Chadors (Hejab).
They are used as a tool at the hands of authorities,
they look like Females but their approach to their
society is just like Males.
Unfortunately both 2 above mentioned groups do not
have the culture of observing, reading and studying
their existing situation and they are not aware of
their rights.
But the bitter truth is that both are the victims of
dominant Male attitude and thinking. These women are
trained to be at Males service and from the early
days of childhood, they are brought up to be slaves.
Women are facing and fighting each other instead of
thinking about their situation and finding their own
Ego. They are not united to solve their common
crucial social problems and find solutions. Instead
they deepen the gap in between and avoid necessary
controversial negotiations.
In order to distract Women’s focus on essential
social issues, they (governments) create more
contradiction and agitation among Women and take
advantage of the consequences of their disunity. By
implementing this policy, Judiciary officials
stabilize more a corrupted society. Covering up
these realities worsen the situation but the time is
due and reality is revealed; it cannot be covered
any more.
Women’s prison is one of the best symbols of this
critical situation.
As a wife, a woman is obliged to accept any
condition and to continue living with a man who is
hurting her mentally, physically and sexually. She
even is not entitled to ask for divorce. Hence, if
she does not show her hatred to her husband through
self torturing or suicide, she will uncover her
anger by being cruel to others, and then she commits
crimes and murders. Obviously, she will be punished
and imprisoned or will be retaliate. She is
desperate and in order to escape all these
complicated troubles, she tries to run away with
another man, neglecting the truth that she is
neglecting a severe code of conduct that results in
a greater punishment that ends up in her death.
Young girls who are victims of their parent’s fights
or under enforcement of strict restrictions leave
their homes too. At the very first hours, they will
be entrapped by sex traders and sex smugglers and if
they are lucky enough, they won’t be murdered. Due
to insecurity and frustration of returning home,
they will be finally landed in prison too.
There are also women who are either addicted or live
with an addicted husband or family members and they
cannot afford cost of livings, they are forced by
her own husband / brother / brother in law to
prostitution, and finally they will be imprisoned
too.
In a country, where basic social relations between
boys and girls are not allowed in public and
youngsters are arrested for pretty long time and are
questioned for simple normal relationship,www.ekurd.netno
body feel safe and secure. New generation and young
people are not willing to integrate with the society
they are living in. They are scared to be arrested
again and prefer to stay away any social
interaction. In some traditional culture in Iran,
families boycott a woman who attends a court room
even for retaining her rights. From their point of
view, her action cannot be overlooked and she has
lost her family/ social pride for good.
But in prisons: victims of above mentioned
approaches are exposed in more complicated situation
when they are kept in prisons. No matter how normal
their behavior and life style is considered as a
normal life in democratic countries, they are
accused and condemned to jail.
For those victims, suppressive severe restrictions
in prisons, court rooms and also harsh and fierce
attitudes and treatments mixed with disgrace and
abuse (even from the same sex), result in losing
their self ego and self defense .Under this
situation, one is often so scared and terrified that
prefer to stay silent and keep on tolerating any
form of abuse instead of complaining and protesting
against the cruelty.
A minor mistake and disobey of those Male made
rules, lead women into prison; where they are not
only morally and mentally assisted but also they are
more engaged in unlawful misbehaviors. After a while
they are released from prison full of professional
wrongdoing experience and complicated emotional
complexes.
A normal woman is not aggressive or a savage natured
but those misbehaves are simply women’s reactions
originated from their physical, financial and mental
insecurity, abuse and cruelty that imposed to them
through Jurisdiction laws. As a matter of fact they
are sacrificed for Male made laws arose from their
narrow minded thinking and ideas.
Women’s prison is the symbol of social poverty,
unemployment, severe and crucial social problems,
disunity between Men and Women, youngster’s problems
and critical cruelty prescribed to a society, and to
women in special.
But in the same society there are still successful
active women who disobey the Male made laws. They
are just opposite the first and second categories,
they are familiar with their own status and they
have a clear understanding of their past and present
situation, they recognize their society they are
living in. They know prosperity and success won’t be
brought up within a Male Chauvinist atmosphere and
above all, they have a true knowledge and ability to
bring in fundamental changes.
This group of women asks themselves some basic
questions such as who they are and what they are,
and then they go for answers. They find the solution
in coordination between social laws and existing
culture and also the interaction between nature and
human beings, they worry about the role of human in
destruction of nature and concerned for environment
pollution. These women are well prepared to react
upon those Male Jurisdiction Authorities thinking
and plans. Those plans that are professionally
designed to assert their wealth, strength and their
profits.
These women are compulsory outcome of the above
society. These women accompanying their men,
shoulder to shoulder move the society forward. They
are socially conscious and strongly believe that one
cannot succeed to prevent violation of human beings
rights (woman on the top of the list) except to
protest against injustice and deny any form of
destructive dominant ideology. They break any rule
that does not comply with Human Rights,www.ekurd.netno
matter of geographical borders and lines, hence they
believe that every single law is basically issued
for the sake of social and cultural betterment, not
to ruin it and block the improvement of social
development .
These women organized and launched the greatest
change and transformation in Human history. For them
it is not surprising to oppose those Male Chauvinist
destructive laws and try to replace them with humane
productive rules through global movements.
This letter was in Persian language, which was
translated to English by Zagros
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Kurdistan (East of Kurdistan)) is an unofficial name
for the parts of Iran inhabited by Kurds and has
borders with Iraq and Turkey. It includes the
greater parts of West Azerbaijan province, Kurdistan
Province, Kermanshah Province, and Ilam Province.
Kurds form the majority of the population of this
region with an estimated population of 12 million.
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