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Face to Face I Tribune I
Interview I News I On the
I One Million I Report
FarsilFran yais ICermani
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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 rges
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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Mohammadi Was
Hospitalised after
Being Released
from Prison
Urgent: Zeynab
lalalian faces
Danger of
Execution!
Bahareh Hedayat &
Milad Asadi
Sentenced to Long
Prison Terms
Change for Equality
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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