IRAN WATCH CANADA

Saturday, April 07, 2007

Recent Human Right Watch press release-

For Immediate Release
Iran: Release Women’s Rights Activists
(New York, April 7, 2007) – The Iranian government should immediately release two women’s rights activists arrested on April 1 and end its harassment and persecution of human rights defenders, Human Rights Watch said today.
On April 1, 2007, security forces arrested five women’s rights activists who were planning to gather signatures for the One Million Signatures Campaign, a project aimed at collecting one million signatures to demand an end to discrimination against women in Iranian law. This includes a call for women’s testimony in court to carry the same weight as that of men, equality of inheritance rights between men and women, the elimination of polygamy, and equality of compensation payments in the event of the wrongful death of a man and of a woman. The arrests took place in Laleh Park in Tehran; three of the five were released two days later.
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Link to HRW
(http://hrw.org/english/docs/2007/03/07/iran15452.htm)

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