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Source: Reporters and Human Rights Activists of Iran (RAHANA) April 15, 2010 Mottahareh Bahrami, who was at first held in ward 209 with Baha’i and media detainees, is currently detained in Evin’s women’s ward. Bahrami was arrested on Ashura (December 27, 2009), along with her husband, her son and 2 friends. She has been sentenced [...]
Source: Reporters and Human Rights Activists of Iran (RAHANA) April 12, 2010 Mitra Aali completed her BA at Amir Kabir University in Tehran. During the time she was at Amir Kabir, Aali was a student activist and the editor-in-chief of the Simorgh magazine, which was published by the university’s Islamic Student Association. Upon completing her [...]
Source: Reporters and Human Rights Activists of Iran (RAHANA) April 14, 2010 This is the first time that an exhibition with feminism as its subject is being held in Tabriz. What makes the exhibition even more important is its location and timing; this is when taking into consideration that the exhibition crosses the restrictive barriers [...]
Source: Persian2English April 13, 2010 Mohsen Karami, the brother of One Million Signatures Campaign member Mahboubeh Karami, discusses his only encounter with his sister since her arrest [42 days ago]. It occurred on March 21, 2010 for the Iranian New Year. The meeting lasted approximately 20 minutes. When Mahboubeh Karami first saw her brother, she [...]
Source: Persian2English April 13, 2010 My name is Bahar (the meaning of Bahar is spring in Persian). It is spring and I write to you of flowers, but flowers with scattered petals. I write to you of the green sprouts, but crushed sprouts that have been trampled on by hatred; a hatred by betrayers toward [...]
Source: European Students’ Union April 2010 ”Bahare Hedayat’s extraordinary courage and her persistent defense of students’ right to freedom of speech and expression are the reasons we are nominating her for the Student Peace Prize 2011”, says Ligia Deca, Chairperson of the European Students’ Union. Bahareh Hedayat (29 years old) is one of the student [...]
By Dominique Soguel – WeNews correspondent Source: WeNews April 9, 2010 Iranian female journalists are veterans of government closure of their print publications and early Internet ventures. Now they are prevailing against the region’s most advanced censoring and monitoring software. Iranian women have pushed the battle for equal rights online even as security forces aggressively [...]
Source: The Green Voice of Freedom (GVF) April 3, 2010 Members of an Iranian women’s group met with Zahra Rahnavard, wife of one of the Green Movement’s leaders Mir-Hossein Mousavi. A number of women journalists, students and lawyers were also present in the meeting. Members of the women’s society called Zanane Noandish (Forward Thinking Women) [...]
Source: Zamaneh April 2, 2010 Iranian women’s rights activist, Shadi Sadr won Amnesty International’s Golden Butterfly award for the most imposing and inspiring activist at The Movies that Matter Festival. Shadi Sadr’s human rights activities are depicted in Farid Haerinejad and Mohammad Kazemi’s film Women in Shroud, a documentary that follows the struggles of a [...]
