Fariba Davoodi Mohajer an outspoken journalist and prominent human rights defender from Iran is due in court on 11 March 2007, to face charges relating to her involvement with a peaceful women’s rights demonstration in July 2006.
The Iranian authorities have subjected Fariba Davoodi Mohajer to prolonged judicial harassment. Prior to the demonstration on women’s rights she was issued a summons to appear at the Revolutionary Court on 10 June 2006. She was interrogated for 10 hours. She was informed that she should be available to be summoned by the court. On 12 June 2006 about sixty protesters were arrested while demonstrating for women’s rights in Tehran. Following her summons on 10 June 2006, Fariba Davoodi Mohajer was summoned on eight separate occasions, three times to appear in front of the Revolutionary Court and on five occasions to appear at the Ministry of Security. 
