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April 25, 2006
Iran: Increased Child Prostitution In The Islamist Regime
News today from AKI reports that child prostitution in Iran is on the increase, according to sociologist Amanollah Gharaii Moghaddam. He told AKI that the reason for an increase in prostitution as a whole among young people in the nation is a consequence of the widespread unemployment and a failing economy. 28% of young people aged 15 to 29 are unemployed.
Other factors include restrictions on women, along with drug addiction and domestic violence, causing many young women to leave their homes. Amanollah Gharaii Moghaddam claims that girls as young as 12 are now selling their bodies on the streets of Iran's cities.
There are an estimated 300,000 prostitutes in Tehran, the capital, but the sociologist states: "the number isn't so high when compared to the four million unemployed only in Tehran and the five million drug addicts today in Iran."
He also criticises "short-term weddings", which are called sighe in Iran, but are also known as mut'ah elsewhere. We have discussed mut'ah marriages as they occur among Shias in Bahrain, and also how they have been abused in Singapore.
Speaking of these sighe weddings, Gharaii Moghaddam says: "Short-term marriages are a form of legalised prostitution. A state must not and cannot legitimise prostitution."
He suggested that the only solution would be "the creation of a million jobs a year for the unemployed and marginalised that would otherwise end up transforming Tehran into a big brothel."
Bahraini feminist Ghada Jamshir has condemned short-term marriages for encouraging child abuse in her country.
Amanollah Gharaii Moghaddam also states that many young Iranians , generally from poor regions in the east and south of Iran, end up in Pakistan and in the United Arab Emirates, where they end up in brothels. Smuggled out of the country by criminal gangs, an estimated 100,000 women have been sold to brothels in the Persian Gulf.
Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at April 25, 2006 8:07 PM
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