I supposed not to start writing with broadcasting such sad and scary news. I planed to gift this weblog to myself for the international women day but the call that I received at 3:30 am today changed my mind. Azadeh(my sister) delivered the news. Fifty of Iranian women’s rights activists were arrested in Tehran. I could not believe it. Fifty people!! I started to count the names I knew…yes, right…
Today four women have been called to the revolutionary court of Tehran for their trail. Their crime was organizing a peaceful gathering for the international women day last year. That peaceful protest has been suppressed in the cruelest way and a year after just few days before March the 8th the organizers were going to receive their punishments. These four women are:
Nooshin Amhadi Khorasani, Parvin Ardalan, Shahla Entesari and Susan Tahmasebi.
Many other women’s rights activists gathered in front of the court from morning to support their accused friends and colleagues. Soon after they held their banners, the guard (some in uniform and some undercover) including one woman, attacked and beaten them. The police van arrived and all women have been arrested. They have transferred to the social immorality section of Vozara court.
The arrested women are:
Asieh Amini, Jila Bani Yaghoub, Mahboubeb Abbasgholizadeh, Mahboubeh Hosseinzadeh, Sara Loghmani, Zara Amjadian, Mariam Hossein Khah, Jelveh Javaheri, Niloofar Golkar, Parastoo Dokoohaki, Zeinab Peyghambarzadeh, Maryam Mirza, Saghar Laghayee, Khadijeh Moghaddam, Saghie Laghayee, Nahid Keshavarz, Mahnaz Mohammadi, Nasrin Afzali, Tal'at Taghinia, Fakhri Shadfar, Maryam Shadfar, Elnaz Ansari, Fatemeh Govarayee, Azadeh Forghani, Sommayeh Farid, Minoo Mortezayee, Sara Imanian.
Later when the four accused women left the court house and learned about their friends’ situation, began to ask for their release but in result they have been arrested as well. Here you can find the preliminary report:
http://azadehpourzand.blogspot.com/
Please spread the news.
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