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Iran - Womens human rights defender Ms Somayeh Rashidi arrestedposted on: 2009/12/23

On 19 December 2009, women's human rights defender Ms Somayeh Rashidi was arrested after being summoned to the Revolutionary Courts for questioning. Somayeh Rashidi is an active human rights defender working on women's rights in Iran. She is involved in the One Million Signatures Campaign, also known as Change for Equality, a campaign led by women in Iran to collect one million signatures in support of changing Iranian discriminatory laws against women.

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Iran: Esha Momeni, Member of the Iranian One Million Signatures Campaign released on bailposted on: 2008/10/23

Case Update

Esha Momeni Iranian-American student who had returned to Iran to complete her thesis involving a film documentary on women's situation -arrested on 15 October 2008-, has been released on a 198000 dollar bail from Evin prison. According to Reza Momeni, her father, Esha is not allowed to leave Iran and has to be present in a political court hearing on charges of "acting against national security and propagating against the government". These charges are heavy enough to have her sentenced to a life prison term. Read more about Esha Momeni's release.

Site of the "One Million Signatures Campaign" Blocked for 16th Time posted on: 2008/10/14

Change for Equality: In yet another attempt to silence the demand for equality and the voice of activists involved in the One Million Signatures Campaign, the site of the Campaign, Change for Equality was blocked. This constitutes the sixteenth time Change for Equality has been blocked.

Iran: Women Human Rights Defenders Ronak Safarzadeh, Hana Abdi, and Fatemeh Goftari Sent to Solitary Confinementposted on: 2008/10/07

According to information received from the city of Sanandaj, Ronak Safarzadeh, Hana Abdi, and Fatemeh Goftari, women human rights defenders, cultural and social council members of Kurdistan Azarmehr Women and members of the One Million Signatures campaign for legislative reform to promote women's rights in Iran, lost three weeks of visiting rights and were transferred to solitary confinement.

Iran: Ill-treatment in detention of members of the One Million Signature Campaignposted on: 2007/09/18

Front Line is deeply concerned following reports of ill-treatment of a number of human rights defenders while they were in detention. In the morning of 14 September 2007, 25 human rights defenders, all members of the One Million Signature Campaign, including 14 women and 11 men were violently arrested. All of those detained have been subsequently released. The 25 human rights defenders are all worker rights activists.

Iran: Continued persecution of women human rights defendersposted on: 2007/04/10

Iranian women human rights defenders, Mahboubeh Hossein Zadeh and Nahid Keshavarz arrested on 02 April 2007 whilst collecting signatures in support of a petition to reform Iranian laws will be freed as soon as their bails are ready, the spokesperson of the judiciary in Tehran announced today.

After refusing to sign an agreement to end their activities in support of women’s rights, the women were charged with “actions against national security” and transferred to Evin prison.

Mahboubeh Hossein Zadeh and Nahid Keshavarz are both active members of the One Million Signatures Campaign, which aims to educate women in Iran about their legal rights and promote reform of discriminatory laws. Three other members of the Campaign, Sara Imanian, Homayoun Nami and Saiedeh Amin, were also arrested but released the following day.