Help Free Courageous Iranian Activists

January 7, 2010 at 8:55 pm · Filed under Uncategorized and tagged: Dr. Shirin Ebadi, Iranian Feminists, One Million Signatures Campaign

Written by Eleanor Smeal, Feminist Majority Foundation President

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi’s sister, a professor in dentistry, Noushin Ebadi, Mansoureh Shojaee, a founder of the One Million Signatures campaign for women’s equality in Iran, and Morteza Kazemian, a journalist, were arrested the evening of December 29 by Ministry of Intelligence agents.  Ebadi, who is out of the country, released a statement that her sister, who is not a human rights activist, was arrested simply because she is her sister and to put pressure on her to stop her human rights activities. Please take a minute to show solidarity with Iranian feminists as they fight for equality and freedom. Read the rest of this entry »

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