The Iranian blogger Arash Ashoorinia reports that Maryam Hossienkhah, Journalist, a member of Women’s Cultural Center, and an active member of the One Million Signatures Campaign was arrested earlier today [Persian]. This incident follows the shut-down of the website in which Maryam used to post (Read Crackdown on Iranian Internet Hosts). Arash continues, “She was interrogated for over 2 hours on Saturday and was told that she is charged with disruption of public opinion, propaganda against the state, and publication of lies through … untrue news items on the site of the Women’s Cultural Center and the One Million Signatures Campaign”. Maryam Hosseinkhah was transferred to the notorious Evin Prison at 2:00pm today.
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Los compañeros de Freedom’s Zone han posteado esta alerta sobre el bloguero egipcio Karim Soliman, en prisión por “insulto al Islam”….
Trackback by Spanish Pundit — November 19, 2007 @ 10:20 am
Does letter writing on her behalf help at all? Anything one can do?
She is a brave woman! I pray God will protect her.
Comment by nachtwache — November 19, 2007 @ 1:03 pm
We must to do something fast.Maybe across http://www.petitiononline.com or in another web site.
Comment by Carlos — November 19, 2007 @ 4:00 pm
[...] Hossienkhah is behind the bars for her work with women rights’ groups (see: Activist Woman Arrested). Today. Shahrzad News published her first picture behind the bars, taken during a meeting with her [...]
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