Front Line is concerned at the recent imprisonment of the Campaign for Equality in Iran. According to a recent statement by the Campaign for Equality Alieh Eghdamdoust has been taken into custody to serve her sentence and Nafiseh Azad must remain in prison while the temporary arrest order against her is investigated.

Statement by Campaign for Equality

Alieh Eghdam Doust who had been sentenced to three years of mandatory prison as a result of her participation in the June 12 2006 protest in Hafte Tir Square was transferred today under guard supervision to the Office of Implementation of Sentences at the Revolutionary Courts. Alieh Eghdamdoust, a woman’s rights defender, was arrested during the protest objecting to discriminatory laws against women in Hafte Tir Square in June 12 2006, and spent a week in prison. She was sentenced by the 15th security branch of the Revolutionary Courts to three years and four months mandatory prison sentence and 20 lashes.

The appeals courts upheld three years of the mandatory prison sentence, reducing her original sentence by four months and 20 lashes.[[spip.php?article455|Link here to Campaign for Equality website for more information on the case of Alieh Eghdam Doust]]

On January 31, 2009 officials announced that they would take Nafiseh Azad to the revolutionary Courts to follow-up her objection to the temporary arrest order issued in her case. Her husband Vahid Maleki was informed by officials at the Security Police Station in Darband that the investigations regarding the case of Azad are ongoing and that she must remain in prison.

Nafiseh Azad, a women’s rights activist and member of the Campaign, was arrested in the mountains in the north of Tehran on Friday January 30, 2009 along with two others while collecting signatures in support of the Campaign’s petition.

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