Front Line celebrates the arrival of the Iranian New Year (Nourouz) on 21 March 2007 with the release of the two remaining detained women human rights defenders, Shadi Sadr and Mahboobeh Abasgholizadeh. They were released on March 19 with bail conditions. Front Line would like to thank everyone who took action on this case.
Shadi Sadr and Mahboobeh Abasgholizadeh were the last two women of the thirty-four women's rights defenders to remain in Evin prison after having been arrested during a peaceful demonstration on 4 March 2007 in front of Tehran's Revolutionary Court. The Iranian Authorities gradually released the women during the first week of the arrests. Shadi Sadr and Mahboobeh Abasgholizadeh spent 6-15 March in solitary confinement. Throughout their detainment they were kept in ward 209 of Evin Prison (run by the Ministry of Intelligence of the Islamic Republic of Iran). According to their families, on March 15 both were transferred from solitary confinement into the same cell and were given newspapers to read. As a condition of their release, their bail was set at 200 million toman each (approximately 190,000 Euro), a prohibitively high amount. 
