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Feministschool: Noushin Ahmadi Khorasani, a women’s studies researcher and member of the One Million Signatures Campaign, was released today after she appeared before the Evin Prison Court “to provide some explanations,†and was informed of her charges.
Khorasani was interrogated when she first appeared in court on Tuesday following a summons, and was asked to return the next day to meet with “case analysts.â€
On Wednesday she was informed of her charges of “propagation activities against (...)

Even though suppression of Human Rights lawyer by annulling the committee or stopping their licence to practice is nothing new, even though imprisoning them for their love for humanity has become a daily news but amongst all of these the arrest of Nasrin Sotoudeh was shocking.
When Nasrin’s license to practice was removed, she continued for human right in Iran by different means. Once she was allowed to practice again the women’s movement activist raised her activities to even greater (...)

Feminist School: Nasrin Sotoudeh was arrested after reporting to the special court in Evin prison and since then has been allowed a short phone call with her family. According to Mr Reza Khandan Nasrin’s husband whom elaborated that "the phone call increased our concerns" Nasrin’s lawyer has been unable to speak or visit Nasrin as pressure and intimidation on her husband and lawyer has been applied. Reza khandan has also been called to report to court to clarify issues on his first report (...)

Feminist School: Nasrin Sotoudeh a defending lawyer , women’s right activist has not returned from attending a court hearing in Evin prison.
Last week Saturday 29th of August 2010 the security forces entered her office and her home at the same time and raided her personal files and belongings and handed a notice of attending a court hearing session based in the notorious Evin prison. Hence Nasrin Sotoudeh attended the court hearing with her lawyer Nasim Ghanvi, which elaborated that, (...)

Feminist school :Nasrin Sotoodeh, a lawyer and activist, said that she is expected to appear in court within the three days upon the received of a summon that was delivered to her following a raid on her home and office few days ago. The Summon indicated that she is charged with “cooperation and connivance against the security of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and making propaganda against the state.â€
She denied this charges as unfunded, and called them sheer accusations, However she said (...)

Feminist School:The Feminist School’s website was filtered again on July 9th 2010 for the 15th time. The last time that the site was filtered was two months ago but sadly yesterday it was filtered again on July 9th 2010 .
Our new address is :http://www.iranianfeministschool.org/english

Feminist School:Narges Mohammadi,women and human rights activist, was hospitalised after being released from prison on bail on July 3rd due to her poor physical condition.
At the time she was suffering from very severe physical conditions which resulted to her being hospitaised Since her release she has contracted temprorely muscle paralysis where she is unable to speak.
According to her husband, Taghi Rahmani, her physical problem has begun in the prison and continued up to now. (...)

Feminist School: After nearly one year past from the June 12th presidential election, the day that took many lives, the day that the Green movement was born.
Women who were killed and many women who were imprisoned, numbers are unknown because of discrepancies in information but with the number of women whom we know are in prison, shows that the numbers are large.
one year has passed from Iranian presidential electoral on June 12th 2009.Number of women in prison have received heavy (...)

History of Iranian Women’s Movement
The women’s rights movement in Iran started over 100 years ago. The first voices for women’s rights in Iran were heard in 1900’s, during the constitutional revolution, when women engaged in underground political participation during the revolution in an effort to advocate women’s rights to share the social space. At first, they had basic demands, such as right to education, because they believed that through education the conditions would improve for women. (...)

The following statement is a summary of the first declaration of women solidarity committee against social violance which had been issued by women’s rights activists on December 18th 2009:Women have realised that violence can always reproduce itself in different domains, starting from political violence then social violence and eventually ends up as family violence;