Good news! Iran's Nobel Laureate Dr. Shirin Ebadi's secretary, Jinus Sobhani, has been released from prison on bail. Sobhani had been detained in solitary confinement since January 14 without access to a lawyer. Now we must make sure 60-year-old Alieh Eghdamdoust is freed. She was recently imprisoned for her participation in a peaceful protest against Iran's discriminatory laws towards women some three years ago. She was among seventy women arrested for this "crime" and is now having to serve a three-year prison sentence.
This news comes after alarming series of attacks against women's rights and human rights leaders by the Iranian government. Join feminist activists worldwide in urging Iranian leaders and the United Nations to pressure the Iranian government to stop harassing women's rights activists.
Late last year, Dr. Ebadi's Center for the Defense of Human Rights, where Sobhani worked, was forcibly closed. Following this, Ebadi's personal property was seized, her home was vandalized by an angry mob and Sobhani was arrested.
Help put an end to this harassment. Urge Iran's President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad; Iran's Head of the Judiciary, Mahmoud Hashemi Shahrudi; the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay; and the U.N. and Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon to intervene now to free Eghdamdoust from prison and to re-open Dr. Ebadi's center immediately!
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