Women’s march broken up
Totem A big crowd of men. some armed with knives, dispersed several hundred women who marched through central Teheran to back demands for equal rights with men. The women, dressed mainIv in Western clothes, chanted "equality of men and women must be carried out” and demanded equal rights of divorce, employment, and the right of women lawyers to become judgeBut soon after the procession began, the women ran into more than 1000 men who leered, mocked, and jostled them, shouting, "bad women should be hanged* and "Islam is Victorious. Left and Right are destroyed." The women, who identified themselves as Members of the Revolutionary Union of struggling Women, managed to flee m small groups, and no serious v iolence erupted In Teheran and other big cities, there have been more student demonstrations seek ing freedom of political activity in schools
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Press, 1 November 1979, Page 7
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