{"id":502,"date":"2014-03-08T15:59:10","date_gmt":"2014-03-08T15:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/?p=502"},"modified":"2014-03-08T15:59:10","modified_gmt":"2014-03-08T15:59:10","slug":"release-shafipour-hedayat-and-all-other-women-prisoners-of-conscience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/?p=502","title":{"rendered":"Release Shafipour, Hedayat, and All Other Women Prisoners of Conscience"},"content":{"rendered":"
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International Women\u2019s Day Sees Shafipour Sentenced to Seven Years<\/p><\/div>\n

(March 7, 2014)\u2014As the world prepares to honor and promote the economic, political, and social achievements of women on International Women\u2019s Day, Iran has sentenced yet another young woman, Maryam Shafipour, for her peaceful activities.<\/p>\n

The Iranian Judiciary should release student activists Shafipour and Bahareh Hedayat, along with the eight other women held in Tehran\u2019s Evin Prison\u2019s political prisoners\u2019 ward Nesvan, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today.
\n\u201cThere is no justification for these young women to languish in prison for precisely the kind of positive engagement that International Women\u2019s Day is meant to promote,\u201d said Hadi Ghaemi, executive director of the Campaign.
\nA student activist and member of Mehdi Karroubi\u2019s 2009 election campaign, Maryam Shafipour was arrested on July 27, 2013. On March 1, the Tehran Revolutionary Court sentenced her to seven years\u2019 imprisonment and two years\u2019 ban on \u201ccyberspace, media, and press activities.\u201d Hedayat, a student and women\u2019s rights activist, has been serving a nine-year prison term since December 2009.
\nThe eight other women serving prison terms in Evin\u2019s political ward Nesvan include six women of the Baha\u2019i faith\u2014Fariba Kamal Abadi, 20 years; Mahvash Shahriari, 20 years; Faran Hesami, 4 years; Nooshin Khadem, 4 years; Leva Khanjani, 2 years; and Zhinoos Rahimi, 1 year\u2014as well as a Christian convert, Maryam Naghash Zargaran, 4 years; and a member of the Mourning Mothers of Laleh Park, Hakimeh Shokri, 3 years.
\nMaryam Shafipour\u2019s recent sentencing for the political charges of \u201cpropaganda against the regime\u201d and \u201cassembly and collusion against national security\u201d included an unheard of ban on participating in cyberspace, a dangerous precedent for political activists and dissidents in Iran.
\nSecurity forces arrested Shafipour on July 27, 2013, after she answered a summons to Evin Prison Court. They then transferred her to Evin Prison, where she spent 67 days in solitary confinement and nearly eight months in \u201ctemporary detention\u201d while her case judge refused to release her on bail.
\nDuring the trial, \u201cExamples of \u2018propaganda against the regime\u2019 have been provided as her publishing content in cyberspace through Facebook and \u2018portrayal of a dark image\u2019 of the Islamic Republic. What this means is that whoever writes any critical messages on Facebook can be accused of this \u2018crime,\u2019\u201d a source close to her family told the Campaign.
\n\u201cOther examples of her crimes is that they found an application form for a student visa on her laptop computer. Under what law is applying for a student visa a crime?\u201d the source added.
\nMaryam Shafipour is a former student of Agricultural Engineering at Qazvin International University. She was first suspended from education for two terms and later dismissed from the university due to her student activities. In 2010, a Qazvin Revolutionary Court had sentenced her to one year in prison for her student activities, which had been suspended.
\nBahareh Hedayat, now 32, is a former member of the Central Council and the Spokesperson for the nationwide student organization Daftar-e Tahkim-e Vahdat. A Tehran court sentenced her to a total of nine years and six months in prison, comprised of two years for \u201cinsulting the Supreme Leader,\u201d six months for \u201cinsulting the President,\u201d and five years for \u201cacting against national security and publishing falsehoods.\u201d She was also sentenced to an additional two years in prison for \u201cacting against national security through holding a protest gathering for women\u201d on June 12, 2006, currently suspended.
\n\u201cReleasing all these women would be a much more fitting way to mark March 8 than continuing to sentence and imprison women activists for peaceful exercise of their rights,\u201d Ghaemi said.
\nListen to the Campaign\u2019s Iran Rights Podcast\u2028\u2028For the latest human rights developments in Iran visit the Campaign\u2019s website
\nFor interviews, contact Hadi Ghaemi at +1-917-669-5996
\nFollow the\u00a0Campaign on Facebook and Twitter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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