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Change for Equality
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Face to Face I Tribune I
Interview I News I On the
I One Million I Report
FarsilFran yais ICermani
Italian I Spanish I
In the same
section
Four Hundred
Iranian Activists
Issue Statement
Expressing Grave
Concern about the
Health of
Seventeen
Prisoners of
Conscience on
Hunger Strike
Parvin Ardalan
Campaign Activist
Receives Hel lman
Hamet Award
Mahboubeh
Karami's Remains
in Prison, Despite
Depression
Call for the
Release of a Group
of Seventeen
Iranian Political
Prisoners on
Hunger Strike
Court Hearing for
Fatemeh Masjedi
and Mar-yam
Bidgoli, Camapaign
Activists in Qom
Scheduled
Seventeen
Prisoners at Evin
on Hunger Strike
and in Solitary
Confinement
Nasim Sarabandi,
Campaign and
Student Activist
Summoned to
Revolutionary
Courts
N a raes
Maryam Malek Released After 5
Days Detention
Tuesday 28 April 2009
Maryam Malek Released on Third Party Guarantee
Change for Equality: April 29, 2009: Maryam Malek, a
member of the Campaign who was arrested on April 25,
2009 was released from Evin Prison on Wednesday
April 29, after 5 days in detention. On April 28,
members of the Mothers Committee submitted a letter
to the Judiciary protesting the recent pressures on
campaign and demanding that the bail order of 20
million Tomans (roughly $20,000) issued in the case of
Mar-yam Malek, demanding that the bail be reduced to a
third party guarantee. The day before her release,
Maryam was transferred to section 209 of Evin prison,
where she was interrogated once again. Mar-yam was
arrested on Saturday 25 April, following summons to
report to the Revolutionary Courts for interrogation.
She was initially transferred to Vozara detention center
and later to Evin prison. She has been charged with
“actions against national security” through the
spreading of propaganda against the state and
membership in the One Million Signatures Campaign.
Maryam MalekTransfered to Evin Prison
Change for Equality: April 26, 2009: Maryam Malek a
memberof the One Million Signatures Campaign, was
transferred to Evin Prison on April 26, 2009. On the
morning of April 26, 2009 Maryam Malek who was being
detained at Vozara Detention center, was transferred
to the Security Police Station, and after several hours
of interrogation was transferred to Security Branch 2 of
the Revolutionary Courts.
Mr. Heydari Fard, the investigative judge in charge of
ContactUs ICam pai ners I RELEASE ON THIRD PARTY GAURANTEE
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Mohammadi Was
Hospitalised after
Being Released
from Prison
Urgent: Zeynab
Jalalian faces
Danger of
Execution!
Bahareh Hedayat &
Milad Asadi
Sentenced to Long
Prison Terms
Change for Equality
t ue case, by citing articles 499 and 500 ot t he Penal
Code, charged Maryam with the spreading of
“Propaganda Against the State” and a new charge of
“membership in the One Million Signatures Campaign.”
Mar-yam has denied the charges against her. A bail
order in the amount of 20 Million Tomans was issued in
this case. Maryam has explained to court officials that
neither she nor her family has the ability to post this
amount of bail. As a result, she was arrested and
transferred to Evin Prison. Judge Heydari Fard has
announced that the case is in the investigative stages
and that interrogations of Mar-yam are ongoing.
Maryam Malek is a 26 year old college student and a
memberof the One Million Signature Campaign. She
has written extensively about the difficulties women
face in family court due to discriminatory laws. From a
religious family herself, she has fought hard to obtain
her rights as well. Her involvement in the Campaign
stems from her personal experiences of being denied
equal opportunities. This is the first time that a
member of the Campaign has been officially charged
with being involved in the Campaign. The charge infers
that the Campaign is an illegal organization. Like
Mar-yam, all members of the Campaign deny that their
activities are illegal and strongly contend that they are
acting within the law and their basic rights as citizens
to have their voices and objections heard by other
citizens and their representatives in Parliament.
Read some of Mar-yam's reports from the Family Courts
and Campaign meetings, as well as an account of her
experience in collecting signatures in support of the
Campaign's petition, which demands changes to laws
that discriminate against women.
Two Generations Working Side-by-Side to Coiled
Signatures
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A Microcosm of Life Under Discriminatory Laws
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Writing about Discriminatory Laws Does not Constitute
Disruption of Public Opinion
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Ebadi: The Demands of the Campaign have Penetrated
Society
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