33 Women Arrested In Tehran At PEACEFUL Demonstration–What You Can Do To Help

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http://www.feministpeacenetwork.org/2008/03/05/33-women-arrested-in-tehran-at-peaceful-demonstration-what-you-can-do-to-help/


Many thanks to World Pulse Magazine for passing along this alert. The truly sickening thing is that this is virtual repeat of last year’s arrests just prior to IWD:

From the Washington Post, “Practically the entire top layer of the women’s movement in Iran, except for Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi, who happens to be in Italy, is in jail,” said Hadi Ghaemi of Human Rights Watch in New York.

And Omid Memarian reports that,

“Thirty three women’s rights defenders were arrested today (March 4) in Tehran during a peaceful gathering in front of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Tehran. The gathering was to protest the recent state pressures on women’s rights defenders. In today’s peaceful protest, women held banners reading, “Article 27 of the constitution guarantees the right to peaceful protests” and “We, too, participated in the previous peaceful protest on 22 Khordad” to show their solidarity with the five women activists who had been summoned to the court for previous peaceful protests and had their appearance in court at the time.The organizers of the two major current campaigns, Stop Stoning Forever, and One Million Signatures to Change the Discriminatory Law, have been among the women rights defenders by the National Security Police.”

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WHAT YOU CAN DO

Sign the petition:

http://www.meydaan.com/English/petition.aspx?cid=52&pid=11When you sign the petition, a copy of it is sent to the offices of Mr. Seyed Mahmoud Shahroudi, the Head of Judiciary, and another copy is sent to Mr. Golam-Ali Haddad-Adel, the leader of the Iranian Parliament.Write a Letter:

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Please send letters to:

Head of the Judiciary
His Excellency Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi
Ministry of Justice, Park-e Shahr, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran
Email: [e-mail] (mark ‘Please forward to HE Ayatollah Shahroudi’)
(Salutation: Your Excellency)

His Excellency Dr. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
The Presidency
Palestine Avenue, Azerbaijan Intersection, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran
Fax: [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail] (Salutation: Dear Sir)

Golam-Ali Haddad-Adel, the leader of the Iranian Parliament Majles-e Shura-ye Eslami
Imam Khomeini Avenue, Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran
Fax: [phone] (occasionally difficult to reach, please be patient)
(Salutation: Dear Sir)

Please note that it is not always easy to send fax and email to Iran and we urge you to also courier your letters to the Iranian embassy in your country (see the listing of an Iranian embassy in your country here.
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wishing the women well

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1. Thank you for the information.

Hopefully more American feminist organizations will realize the horrors that occur outside of our country. Compared to countries like Iran, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and countless sub-Saharan African nations, women in the US have it pretty good.

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2. K&R

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