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Women
Iranian women protest over polygamy in Iran
AP May 1, 2004, 06:29

A group of some 250 Iranians, mostly women, gather on April 28, 2004
in Tehran, to protest against the state-run television for airing a
series of programmes which promoted polygamy. The demonstrators
protested that the hard-line Islamic state is trampling women's
rights.

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Around 250 people, mostly women, protested
Wednesday against state-run Iranian TV for airing a series that
promoted polygamy, saying it was evidence that the hard-line Islamic
state was trampling women's rights.

Wearing brightly coloured clothing as opposed to the traditional
head-to-toe black chador, the women gathered at a building in central
Tehran to denounce policies by hard-liners that seek to restrict women
to roles such as obedient housewives.

"Our gathering today is a voice of protest against the trampling of
our rights and promotion by television of polygamy," woman rights
activist Parvin Ardalan told The Associated Press.

Women activists launched a protest campaign last month after state
television, controlled by hard-liners, aired a series titled "Another
Lady," on which a woman introduces her friend to her husband for
marriage.