{"id":3051,"date":"2013-04-26T02:04:47","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T22:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=3051"},"modified":"2013-04-26T02:04:47","modified_gmt":"2013-04-25T22:04:47","slug":"being-a-woman-is-not-a-punishment-iranian-men-dress-in-drag-after-court-ordered-criminal-to-wear-female-clothes-in-public-to-humiliate-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=3051","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Being a woman is not a punishment&#8217;: Iranian men dress in drag after court ordered criminal to wear female clothes in public to &#8216;humiliate&#8217; him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/i11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-3049\" alt=\"i1\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/i11.jpg\" width=\"444\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/i11.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/i11-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/i11-394x300.jpg 394w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 444px) 100vw, 444px\" \/><\/a>Kurdish men in Iran have dressed in drag after a court ordered a man to walk down the street in women&#8217;s clothing in an attempt to humiliate him.<\/p>\n<p>More than 150 men have posted photographs of themselves in traditional female Kurdish clothing as part of the \u2018Kurd men for Equality\u2019 campaign against the sexist nature of sentence.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign\u2019s tagline is: \u2018Being a woman is not a way for humiliation or punishment.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses said he was forced to walk in public in a red tchador, a type of traditional women\u2019s clothing.<\/p>\n<p>Journalist Saman Rasoulpour told <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gaystarnews.com\/article\/men-iran-don-women%E2%80%99s-clothes-protest-cross-dress-punishment230413\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Gay Star News<\/b><\/a>: \u2018[In] this way, authorities are able to both demean the accused and deliver a warning to the public.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018This is the first time in Iran that an accused is paraded in women\u2019s clothes in the streets to humiliate him. It is unprecedented anywhere in Iran.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The campaign was started on Facebook on April 18 and now has more than 9,000 fans and features messages of support from campaigners around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Women have joined the campaign by dressing in men\u2019s clothes.<\/p>\n<p>In response 17 members of Iran\u2019s parliament signed a letter sent to the Justice Ministry condemning the sentence as \u2018humiliating to Muslim women,\u2019 with one MP criticising it during a session of parliament.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kurdish men in Iran have dressed in drag after a court ordered a man to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,140,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-news","category-region","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}