A few Links of the women's arrets:
- Human Rights Watch : Release Women's Rights Advocates- Look at the arrested women's photos here: HRW Slideshow
- Iranian Women Are Arrested After Protests Outside Court, By NAZILA FATHI
Dozens were protesting outside a court where five were on trial for leading a campaign to gain more legal rights for women...
- Amnesty International :Arrests of women may be an attempt to prevent International Women's Day calls for equality
- OpenDemocracy: Women in Iran: repression and resistance,
In claiming their rights, modern Iranian women are building on the country's feminist pioneers, writes Nasrin Alavi
- Global Voices Online: Women Activists Jailed, Teachers on the Street and War Whispers, MA - Mar 5, 2007
- United States Policy Towards Iran, US Department of State (press release), DC
- Mass arrests in Iran over security fearsGulf News, United Arab Emirates
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Watch the video of women in 1979 against compulsory veiling. Ma EnghelaAb Nakardim, Ke be Aghab Bargardim, they shouted but alas...
Iran 1979, March 8 International Women's Day. "If you are against death by stoning! If you are against forced veiling! If you are against ... all » the prosecution and imprisonment of women! If you are against lashing a woman’s body! If you are against any form of patriarchy! If you are against the medieval laws of Iran’s Islamic Republic of Iran imposing inequality on women! – Join the great walk against anti-women laws in Iran’s Islamic Republic on 8 March 2007 in Holland!"
Watch the video:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8842589185458786745&hl=en-GB
Omid,
Stop funding CNN and FOX.
Cancel your cable subscription.
CNN produces these junk shows and news reports, because you are funding it.
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