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Iran: Women rights defenders summoned by Iranian Judiciary for interrogationposted on: 2009/11/05

At least eleven Iranian women's rights defenders, including Ms Khadijeh Moghaddam, Mr Kaveh Mozaffari, Mrs Jelveh Javaheri, Mr Parsa Kakai and Ms Mayram Malek, have been summoned to the Revolutionary Courts for questioning by the Judiciary and security officials. The defenders are members of the One Million Signatures Campaign, also known as Change for Equality, a campaign led by women in Iran to collect one million signatures in support of changing Iranian discriminatory laws against women.