Now all my friends are arrested. Shadi, Asieh, Parastoo, Nasrin, Mahboubeh…
I can’t help crying……………………..
50 of the women’s rights movement activists were arrested in front of the Revolutionary Court in Tehran.
The security police forces attacked a peaceful gathering of women’s rights activists that had taken place at 8:30 am in front of the Revolutionary Court in Tehran in objection to the recent governmental oppressions and the summoning of some of these activists. The police forces who used violence to scatter the crowd, arrested at least 21 of the protesters.
According to the report published by Zanestan and Advar News, the list of the arrested is as follows:
Shadi Sadr, Asieh Amini, Jila Bani Yaghoub, Mahboubeb Abbasgholizadeh, Mahboubeh Hosseinzadeh, Sara Loghmani, Zara Amjadian, Mariam Hossein Khah, Jelveh Javaheri, Niloofar Golkar, Parastoo Dokoohaki, Zeinab Peyghambarzadeh, Maryam Mirza, Saghar Laghayee, Khadijeh Moghaddam, Saghie Laghayee, Nahid Keshavarz, Mahnaz Mohammadi, Nasrin Afzali, Tal’at Taghinia, Fakhri Shadfar, Maryam Shadfar, Elnaz Ansari, Fatemeh Govarayee, Azadeh Forghani, Sommayeh Farid, Minoo Mortezayee, Sara Imanian.
Nooshin Amhadi Khorasani, Parvin Ardalan, Shahla Entesari and Susan Tahmasebi—five prominent members of the women’s rights movement—who had to attend their court hearing left the court session in support of their fellow activists. They, too, got arrested upon their departure from the court.
The police officers hit Nahid Jafari’s head to the police van and as a result of such violent actions, her teeth broke and the officers are currently refusing to take her to the emergency room.
5 comments
Sunday, March 4, 2007 at 9:39 am
nava
Salam,
Since this morning that I found it out, I can’t help but wondering who decided this peaceful gathering? Were they out of their mind? Do you go donce in front of a poisenous snake? It was the most thoughtless move I had seen from them. It was completely like “Catch me if you can”, you know? (“assas mano begir”) I’m still in shock!…and so angry and upset…pfff!
Sunday, March 4, 2007 at 9:41 am
nava
Salam,
Since this morning that I found it out, I can’t help but wondering who decided this peaceful gathering? Were they out of their mind? Do you go donce in front of a poisenous snake? It was the most thoughtless move I had seen from them. It was completely like “Catch me if you can”, you know? (“assas mano begir”) I’m still in shock!…and so angry and upset…pfff!
Sunday, March 4, 2007 at 8:08 pm
roamaround
My heart is with these brave women. They are fighting one of the hardest and most important battles imaginable, and they are fighting for all of us. Solidarity and sisterhood from Chicago.
Monday, March 5, 2007 at 12:20 am
sheernejad
“The stars shine the brightest in the darkest time of the night.” That quote from Martin Luther King is all I can think of to give me hope……:(
Monday, March 5, 2007 at 1:58 am
David
Dear Sanam, I just heard about the arrest of the women demonstrators. Parastoo is my friend too! There is a link to a petition that I just signed here:
http://azadehpourzand.blogspot.com/
I am very concerned! Please tell me if there is anything that I can do.