Last month Roja Bandari blogged
about Iranian women's rights campaigner Jelveh Javaheri as part of our 16 Days Against
Gender Violence coverage. Jelveh had been summoned to court and taken to the Evin
prison on the charges of disrupting public opinion, advertising against the
system, and publishing lies.
Jelveh and her colleague and journalist Maryam Hosseinkhah
were finally released on bail last week - meaning their activities will be
restricted until they go to trial. Both were members the One Million Signatures
Campaign. [more...]
Roja Bandari tells us that "two other activists, Ronak and
Haana, are still in custody in Kurdistan
region and we are very concerned about their conditions".
Elsewhere: Reporters
without borders' take
on the case, pictures
of Maryam and Jelveh at World Picture News, and an interview
with Jelveh conducted before she was arrested.
