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# Parvin Ardalan banned from travel
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/parvin-ardalan-banned-from-travel/
- Published: 2008-03-04T11:03:44.000Z
- Updated: 2019-02-14T22:39:39.000Z
- Author: Grace Davies
- Tags: #en, #Migrated, #Import 2026-04-09 18:41

Last month, this blog along with many others [celebrated](https://www.opendemocracy.net/blog/jane%5Fgabriel/olof%5Fpalme%5Fprize%5Fparvin%5Fardalan) the award of the prestigious [Olof Palme prize](http://www.palmefonden.se/index.php?page=31&ref=opendemocracy.net) to Iranian women's rights activist Parvin Ardalan. Now, just a few weeks on, Ms Ardalan has been denied a right to travel abroad. On her way to Sweden yesterday to accept the internationally recognised award, she was detained by security officials before the plane could leave. Ardalan explains: "(Officials said) I was banned from travel and that I could not exit Iran. They also seized my passport."

Parvin Ardalan was honoured for her courageous work with the One Million Signatures campaign - the change for equality site has more on the [story here](http://www.we4change.info/english/spip.php?article229&ref=opendemocracy.net).