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Feminist School :Unfortunately, although near five months have passed since the elections ,detainment of prisoners still continues , last month Hangameh Shahidi was released on bail only after months of imprisonment and Vahideh Molavi , Raheleh Asgarizadeh and Somayeh Rashidi who had been arrested on Nov.4th were released on third party guaranty .
Negar Sayeh is Still in Solitary Confinement Negar Sayeh , journalist and in charge of Mousavi’s youth election headquarters in district no. (...)

Feminist School :On the occasion of the 10th Anniversary of Women’s Learning Partnership (WLP) and 30th Anniversary of CEDAW ,WLP in cooperation with Cultural Conversations, of the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University presented ; Women & the Politics of Change in the Middle East On October 27, 2009 .
Website Women in the Middle East are working to change public opinion, laws, and policies in order to build democratic and inclusive societies. a panel of (...)

Events of post presidential election in Iran, and the peaceful objection of millions of Iranian men and women to the election result which many are sentenced to imprisonment for demanding their rights, among the imprisoned, we know some of them because of their previous social activities or their vibrant presence in the recent objections.

Focus on Iranian women: According to Amnesty International, 13 journalists were among the thousands of people arrested in Iran since the disputed presidential elections on 12 June. Seven have since been released; five are known to be in prison. Amnesty International says it has no farther information about one journalist, Rouhollah Shahsavar.
In its statement, “Iran: Seven Iranian Journalists Released†, http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/MDE13/092/2009/en, Amnesty International says (...)

Feminist School :Unfortunately, although two months have passed since the elections ,detainment of women journalists still continues.
Fariba Pajouh
Fariba Pajouh , a reformist journalist , has been arrested on August 23,Fariba who has worked for ILNA news agency and Etemad e Melli newspaper is kept in Evin prison .
Shiva Nazarahari
Shiva Nazar Ahari , human rights activist , was arrested in the first days after presidential election in her office and transferred to Evin prison . she (...)

Feminist School : According to the green wave of freedom website , Saeedeh Kordinejad , MA graduate in Economy science and member of students division of Mir Hossein Mousavi’s election headquarters was released on August 26 . she was arrested on July 29 and transferred to Evin prison ward No.209 .
Also Abdolfatah Soltani , judicial lawyer and member of supporters of human rights association ,was released on bail in the amount of $100,000.
Mahsa Amrabadi , Journalist , was released on bail (...)

The IR Women’s website reports that the family of Bahman Ahmadi Amouee, a freelance journalist arrested at home in Tehran on June 20 with his wife, writer and journalist Jila Baniyaghoub, was not allowed a visit yesterday from his family.
Bahman’s brother, Zafar, who had driven to Tehran from Bandar Abbas, expressed his concern that the prison authorities did not inform them when they first went to the prison early in the morning, that Bahman was not permitted visits. After a long wait of (...)

Feminist School : Haleh Sahabi, Quran scholar and women rights activist ,and Kaveh Mozafari ,women rights activist ,were released on bail on August 17 .
Zhila Bani Yaghoub , journalist and editor in chief of the focus on Iranian women website , is released today on bail in the amount of $100,000.her husband Bahman Ahmadi Amouie is still in prison in solitary confinement .they were both arrested in their homes around 2 months ago.
Shiva Nazar Ahari was visited by her mother after 2 months (...)

Feminist School:Haleh Sahabi the daughter of well known politician Ezatolah Sahbai and a member of The Coalition of Iranian Women stating their demands for the presidential election
was arrested violently by plain clothes security forces. At first the surrounding people managed to release Haleh from the security but more security joined in and pepper gas was used special on the faces of the people who did help her. Haleh was recaptured and witnesses say they used their batons to bit Haleh (...)

Feminist School :Nearly 50 days have passed since Iran’s presidential election. Regrettably some women such as: Neda Agha Soltan , Fatemeh Rajab Pour and her daughter were killed and many women have beaten or arrested . Some women’s rights activists were arrested from their home or on the way to join demonstrators, at this stage it is not clear as to how many women have been killed or arrested but what is clear that detained women activists are in great numbers.
There is no indication or (...)