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Virtual Sit-in in Solidarity with Iranian Detainees, June 16-19
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Gita Hashemi
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Jun 16, 2006 11:49 PDT
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Subject: Electronic Solidarity Action
Dates: June 16 - 19, 2006
Go to: http://opinionware.net/iran
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Please join us in an urgent action in solidarity with Iranian women's
movement and in support of the tens of people who were detained on
June 12, 2006 in Tehran. Some detainees are apparently scheduled to
attend court on Saturday, June 17th. This action is an electronic
sit-in on the website of the Presidency of the Islamic Republic of
Iran. Help send a strong message to Iran's President to demand the
immediate and unconditional release of all detainees.
Background:
On June 12, 2006, Iranian law enforcement forces violently attacked
and arrested peaceful demonstrators who had gathered in Haft-Tir
Square, Tehran, to demand equal rights for women. In an interview at
the Evin Prison 2 days later, the spokesperson for the Islamic
Republic (in)Justice Department stated that 70 people - 42 women and
28 men - were arrested and have been transferred to the Evin
Prison. Eye-witness accounts, published on several Farsi and English
blogs, report the number of detainees to be much higher, including
some who were arrested several hours before the demonstration was to
take place. A coalition of women's associations, other NGOs and
individuals had organized the demonstration - on the anniversary of a
peaceful action with similar goals held last year in front of Tehran
University - to demand changes to the discriminatory legal code in
Iran, specifically:
* The right to divorce by women
* Child custody rights for women
* Abolition of polygamy
* Equal rights in family law
* Increasing the minimum legal marriage age for girls to 18 (currently 15)
* Equal rights for women as witnesses in courts of law
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Action organized by Sirens of Solidarity in collaboration with
OpinionWare and Creative Response, aided by Electronic Disturbance
Theatre.
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More info about the events (in English):
Amnesty International
http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGMDE130662006?open&of=ENG-2MD
Human Rights Watch
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2006/06/15/iran13548.htm
Reporters without Borders
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=17983
More info about the events (in Farsi):
Majale-ye Zanestan
http://herlandmag.org/
Rooznameh-ye Shargh
http://www.sharghnewspaper.com/850324/html/iran.htm
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