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Cross-dressing Kurdish men champion women’s rights
Thursday, 25 April 2013
More than 150 photos have been uploaded depicting men donning
female garments such as traditional dresses, veils and scarves.
(Courtesy: Facebook)
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Al Arabiya -
Iranian men from the country’s Kurdish community are championing
women’s rights in a rather peculiar fashion, by dressing in women’s
clothes.
The photos of the cross-dressed men are posted online
via social networking websites in a bid to honor women, reported The
Independent on Wednesday.
With more than 7,000 Facebook likes, the group, known as The Kurd Men for
Equality, is making their message known.
More than 150 photos have been uploaded depicting men donning female garments
such as traditional dresses, veils and scarves.
The campaign was launched following the closure of a high profile domestic
abuse case in Iran.
A man accused of harming his wife was sentenced, by the prevailing judge, to
walk the streets of a city in the north-western Marivan region of
Iran, dressed in women’s clothes.
The punishment was deemed
misogynistic by feminists in the country, according to The Independent.
17 Iranian MPs wrote to the justice ministry decrying the ruling
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