Nafiseh Azad, Member of One Million Signatures Campaign Released

          
          8/10/2010
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          Nafiseh Azad,
          Member of One
          Million
          Signatures
          Campaign
          Released after 6
          Days Detention
          Thursday 5 February 2009
          Change for Equality: Nafiseh Azad was
          released from detention late afternoon on
          Wednesday February 4, 2009 after spending
          six days in detention at Vozara Detention
          Center. She was released on a third party
          guarantee in the amount of 500 Million Rials
          (roughly $50,000). The first Security Branch of
          the Prosecutor's Office of the Revolutionary
          Courts changed the arrest order into a third
          party guarantee bail order, allowing this
          women's rights activist to be released from
          prison.
          Azad was arrested on January 30, 2009 in the
          Tochal mountains north of Tehran. She was
          arrested while she was accompanying two
          other members of the One Million Signatures
          Campaign as they were being escorted by
          police, in the hopes of being able to convince
          the officials to not arrest them. The other two
          members of the Campaign were released
          within a day, but Azad's arrest order was
          extended and she was transferred to Vozara
          Detention Center. During this time in
          detention, she was subjected to several
          interrogation session, and she was charged
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          with actions against national security, through
          the spreading of propaganda against the
          state. Campaign members and Azad herself
          steadfastly deny such charges, as according
          to Iranian law, the collection of signatures is
          not considered to be a criminal act.
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