IRAN WOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR ONE MILLION SIGNATURES AGAINST IRAN DISCRIMINATORY LAWS

Iranian women’s rights activists are initiating a wide campaign demanding an end to discriminatory laws against women in the Iranian law. The Campaign “One Million Signatures Demanding Changes to Discriminatory Laws” is a follow-up effort to the peaceful protest of the same aim, which took place on June 12, 2006 in Haft-e Tir Square in Tehran. WUNRN
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SIGN ONE MILLION SIGNATURES CAMPAIGN PETITION

http://learningpartnership.org/advocacy/alerts/iranmillionsigns0207

http://www.we-change.org/spip.php?article19

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IRAN - THREE WOMEN OF THE ONE MILLION SIGNATURES CAMPAIGN ARRESTED
30 January 2009
Change for Equality: Three members of the One Million Signatures Campaign, were arrested earlier today in the mountains of Tochal, in the north of Tehran. Nafiseh Azad, Bigard Ebrahimi and another member of the Campaign, were arrested earlier today January 30, 2009 while collecting signatures in support of the Campaign’s petition and engaging in discussion with the public. Initially the members were detained in a police station in the mountains, after which they were transferred to Police Station One in Darband, where they were detained for several hours. These women’s rights activists have since been transferred to Vozara Detention Center. Their family and friends have been told that they can follow up their case with the courts in the morning. Stay tuned to the site of Change for Equality for more information and updates.
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IRAN ARREST ORDER FOR NAFISEH AZAD RENEWED
31 January 2009
Change for Equality: Three members of the One Million Signatures Campaign who were arrested in the mountains north of Tehran yesterday while collecting signatures in support of the Campaign’s petition, were taken to the Revolutionary Courts today, where their cases were tended to by an investigative judge.

Nafiseh Azad, Bigard Ebrahimi and a third person who wishes to remain anonymous at this point, were arrested yesterday and interrogated at Vozara detention center this morning before being transferred to the Revolutionary Courts. The Investigative Judge, Mr. Sobhani renewed the temporary arrest order for Nafiseh Azad, charging her with actions against the state through the spreading of propaganda against the state. Nafiseh Azad objected to the arrest order and the charges against her.

In this same court session Bigard Ebrahimi was issued a third party guarantee bail order. Both Nafiseh Azad and Bigard Ebrahim were then transferred to the Police Station One in Darband and then to Vozara Detention Center. It is expected that Bigard Ebrahimi and the other individual arrested yesterday will be released tomorrow on a third party guarantee, but Nafiseh Azad’s charges will be tended to in the Security Branch of the Revolutionary Courts tomorrow.

It is worth noting that family members and members of the Campaign were present from early morning at Vozara Detention Center and the Revolutionary Courts to follow up on the case of these women’s rights activists.