UPDATE: Iran: Wave of arrests: Court again refuses to accept bail posted for 'One Million Signatures' campaigner Zeinab Peyqambarzadeh
Zeinab, who is 23 years old, is a member of the One Million Signatures Campaign, which seeks to end legal discrimination against women in Iran. She is also a journalist working with the social section of Sarmayeh Daily and a member of the Women’s Commission of the student organization, the Office to Foster Unity. She is a university student at Tehran University, where she is studying toward a degree in social science. In September of 2006, Zeinab was charged with participating in student protests in May and June of 2005, and suspended from university for two terms.
To read Zeinab's account, "Vozara Detention Center: A Place for Women in Search of Freedom", please click here and for more information on her activism, see here.
To read Mohammad Sharif's full statement, please click here.
For background to the waves of arrests of women's human rights defenders in Iran, please see our previous Calls for Action and the we4change website.
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