Zeinab Peyqambarzadeh a human rights defender and leading member of the One Million Signatures Campaign was freed on 16 May 2007 after 9 days imprisonment in Evin prison and having paid a bail sum of 20, 000, 000 Iranian Toman

Zeinab Peyqambarzadeh reported to the Security Branch of the Revolutionary Court in Tehran, on 7 May 2007 in accordance with a court summons she received two days earlier relating to her arrest on 4 March 2007. She was arrested on 4 March together with 32 other women for participating in a peaceful protest against the judicial harassment of five prominent women human rights defenders Nooshin Ahmadi Khorasani, Parvin Ardalan, Shahla Entesari, Susan Tahmesebi and Fariba Davoodi Mohajer who were subsequently sentenced on 18 April 2007, under Article 610 of the Iranian Penal Code for “actions against the State” and threatening “national security” in relation to their involvement in organising a peaceful demonstration in August 2006.

Several hours after Zeinab Peyqambarzadeh reported to the Court, she called her father to inform him that she had been arrested and was being transferred to Evin prison as her bail was set at 20 million Tomans (approximately 20,000 Euros), a sum which she cannot afford to pay.

Front Line believes Zeinab Peyqambarzadeh was targeted in retribution for her activities in defence of women's rights, in particular her involvement with the One Million Signatures Campaign which aims at reforming Iranian laws that discriminate against women.

Front Line welcomes Zeinab Peyqambarzadeh's release but remains deeply concerned that other human rights defenders and members of the One Million Signatures Campaign may also be targeted and harassed.