Iran's 'Mourning Mothers' must be released

11 January 2010
Amnesty International has urged the Iranian authorities to release a group of women who were beaten and arrested during a peaceful vigil in Tehran at the weekend.

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Acceptance speech by Ms Shadi Sadr, winner of the 2009 Human Rights Defenders Tulip

Jury of the Human Rights Tulip Award,
Your Excellency Foreign Minister of Holland
Ladies and Gentlemen

I am greatly honoured that the jury of the Human Rights Tulip Award has found me worth of receiving this year’s award and given me the opportunity to speak about the situation of women’s rights in Iran, the dire needs of people in Iran and also their expectations from the international community.

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Shadi Sadr violently abducted without headscarf

Date: 2009/07/17 Meydaan

Shadi SadrAround 11:30 a.m. Friday, July 17th Shadi Sadr was arrested in an entirely illegal manner on Keshavarz Blvd when she was en route with her friends to attend the Friday Prayers. One of Shadi’s friends has provided an account of what took place, stating:

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Iran: Women's rights activist and lawyer violently arrested

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
NEWS FLASH

17 July 2009
Amnesty International fears the wave of arrests of civil society activists in Iran is intensifying after lawyer and human rights activist, Shadi Sadr, was violently arrested in Tehran this morning on her way to Friday prayers.

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“Soudabeh” the protagonist of the film and I, were together in “Evin Prison” in Tehran...

An Interview with PanteA Bahrami Iranian Documentary maker in Germany / Shohreh Jandaghian
PanteA Bahrami who graduated with a Phil.Dr in Journalism at the University of Dortmund in 2002, is now the head of „Anahita Medien Productions“ in Cologne /Germany.

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I Will Greet the Sun Again / By Forough Farrokhzad

I'll give greetings to the sun once again,
to the stream that flowed within me,
to the clouds which were my tallest thoughts,
to the painful growth of aspens in the garden
who endured the seasons of drought with me,
to the flock of crows
who as a gift

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Salaam to All the Women

Excerpts from an online diary by a young Iranian lesbian.

I always wished there was a place where I could meet other people like myself. Since such a place doesn't exist, I decided to do something about it myself, and so I built this weblog.

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Ontario's New Family Statuate Law Amendment Bill -by Parvin Ashrafi

On November 16, the Attorney General of Ontario, Honorable Michael Bryant announced the proposed amendments to arbitration in family matters.

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