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Iran: Violent Search of Women Activists' Home and Seizure of
Their Property
Change forEgua//ty , Tehran: February 3, 2009: Security Officials from the Special Security Branch
of the Office of the Prosecutor of the Revolutionary Courts stormed the home of imprisoned
Campaign member and Women's rights activist Nafiseh Azad and seized her personal property as
Well as the property of her housemates. During this search and seizure operation officials violently
beat Elnaz Ansari, another member of the Campaign and Nafiseh's housemate and beat and
handcuffed Vahid Maleki (Nafiseh's husband).
Nafiseh is a graduate student and lives With
Elnaz Ansari and Aida Saadat, her two
housemates in Tehran. Her husband has come
to Tehran from Isfahan to follow the case of his
wife, who was imprisoned on Friday January
30, 2009, while collecting signatures in support
of the Campaign's petition. During this violent
search and seizure operation, three officials
from the Revolutionary Courts confiscated
Nafiseh Azad's personal property as well as
the lap top of Elnaz Ansari and documents
belonging to Aida Saadat.
Elnaz Ansari's objections to the security
officials with respect to the search of her
property and seizure of her laptop computer resulted in violence. Security officials lbrcefi.illy took
these items from Elnaz. Mr. Maleki, who attempted to prevent the beating of Elnaz Ansari by the
security officials, was beaten as well and then handcuflëd for the remainder of the time, while
security agents continued with their violent search and seizure of Azad's home.
It is important to note that the court order allowing for the search of the premises and the seizure of
property explicitly stated that only property belonging to Naflseh Azad and in relation to the
Campaign should be searched and seized. The property that was seized in direct violation of this
court order included a large quantity of films, books, personal notebooks, and work related papers
of Naflseh's housemates, as well as Elnaz Ansari's laptop computer.
Elan Ansari explains the events as follows: “When the officials came to our house, I explained that
Aida and I were housemates with Nafiseh. Because the court order allowed them to only search
Nafiseh's property, Vahid, Nafiseh's husband, took the officials to Nafiseh's room and identified her
property. While the search was taking place I got a phone call on my mobile phone, which I
answered. One of the security officers demanded that I hang up the phone, and when I refused, he
threatened me, lurched towards me and attacked me. Vahid Maleki intervened to try to prevent the
security official from beating me. As a result he too was beaten and then handcuffed.”
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Elnaz continued by explaining that: “the security officials then confiscated my mobile phone by
force and violence and then my laptop while beating me. Despite my insistence that the laptop
belonged to me and despite the fact that I showed them that the documents in the laptop were in
fact in my name, they still confiscated my laptop. I kept insisting that neither my name nor Aida's
name had been mentioned in the court order. So, I kept asking for a court order for the search of my
belonging and the seizure of my property. Nafiseh's husband had also gone to great lengths on the
way over to our home to explain our living situation. In respense the security officials had promised
him that they would only search Nafiseh's belongings and that they would not seize any property.
While confiscating my property as well as Aida's the security officials continued beating Nafiseh
Azad's husband, despite the fact that he had been handcuffed.”
She explains further: “the security officials ransacked our home, all the while cursing, and insulting
us. They took DVDs, CDs, handwritten documents which I was typing as part of a project unrelated
to the Campaign, and they took bags belonging to Nafiseh, Aida and myself. All this occurred
despite the fact that the court order explicitly stated that they should only take documents related
to Campaign and belonging to Naflseh Azad.”
Nafiseh Azad was arrested while collecting signatures in support of the Campaign's petition along
with two other members of the Campaign, on January 30, 2009. While the other two members were
released within a day on a third party guarantee, the arrest order far Naflseh Azad was extended.
She is now in detention in Vozara Detention Center and being interrogated, as the investigation into
her activities in the Campaign and in defense of women's rights continues.
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