Campaign for Sentenced Women Activists Sentenced in Iran

Democracy Alert

[April 26, 2007]

Campaign for Sentenced Women Activists Sentenced in Iran

Middle East & North Africa
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The Women's Learning Partnership for Rights, Development, and Peace (WLP) has issued an alert and began a writing campaign to help four women's rights activists who were sentenced to prison last week for their role in organizing the June 12, 2006 peaceful protest demanding equal rights for women in Iran. Fariba Davoudi Mohajer was sentenced to 4 years in prison, three of which are suspended. Parvin Ardalan and Noushin Ahmadi Khorasani were sentenced to 3 years, of which two and a half years are suspended. Sussan Tahmasebi received 2 years, of which one year and a half years are suspended.

The women will be required to serve the suspended sentences if "found guilty of another crime" during the next five years. WLP claims the government is using the suspended sentences as a way to pressure activists into ceasing their activities. All activists were tried in absentia, because when they walked outside the courthouse to stop police from beating supporters and friends assembled to hear the outcome of their cases, they were arrested and prevented from returning to the courthouse to be present at their own trial.
 
To protest the sentencing of the four activists, WLP asks you to please write to the following individuals:
 

    Ayatollah Sayed Ali Khamenei
    The Office of the Supreme Leader
    Palestine Avenue, Azerbaijan Intersection
    Tehran, Iran
    Email: info@leader.ir
    Fax: +98-21-649-5880 or +98-21-774-2228
    Salutation: Your Excellency

    Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahrudi
    Head of the Judiciary
    Ministry of Justice
    Park-e Shahr
    Tehran, Iran
    Email: Irjpr@iranjudiciary.com
    Fax : +98-21-879-6671
    Salutation: Your Excellency

    Dr. M. Javad Zarif
    Ambassador to the United Nations
    Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations
    622 Third Ave.
    New York, NY 10017, United States
    Email: jzarif@un.int
    Fax: +1-212-867-7086
    Salutation: Your Excellency