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UPDATE: Iran: Three women's rights advocates sent to solitary confinement

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IHRV
According to information received from the city of Sanandaj, women activists of the One Million Signatures Campaign Ronak Safarzadeh, Hana Abdi, and Fatemeh Goftari, have lost three weeks of visiting rights and transferred to solitary confinement.
"Readers are reminded that Ms. Safarzadeh, a student and feminist activist, was arrested in her residence last year on 17 Mehr (October 9) and charged with association with the 1,000,000 signature petition campaign. Exactly 27 days later, Ms. Abdi, who is also a feminist activist, was arrested in connection with the same charge.
Considering that in Iran civil rights activists, women and students under any excuses are charged with “activities against national security”, Ms. Safarzadeh and Ms. Abdi will likely be charged with the same.

Latest reports by the committee activists in Sanandaj indicates that three of the activists’ conditions are critical, and they insist on continuing with their hunger strike.

Source: Committee to Support Widespread Hunger Strike by Kurdish Political Prisoners and Civil Rights Activists, via http://www.ihrv.org/inf/?p=1068#more-1068

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Submitted on 10/07/2008
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