After nine days in detention, Khadijeh Moghaddam, women’s rights activist and member of Change for Equality‘s One Million Signatures Campaign, was finally released the afternoon of 16 April.

On 8 April, Moghaddam was arrested by Iranian security forces. The forces forcibly entered her home with charges of “spreading of propaganda against the state; disruption of public opinion; and actions against national security.” Moghaddam was being detained at Vozara Detention Center, with bail set at 100 Million Tomans (approx. $110,000). She was transfered to Evin prison on 15 April, after her bail was reduced to a third party guarantee.

The Nobel Women’s Initiative stands in solidarity with the Iranian women’s rights movement. The brave efforts by the One Million Signatures Campaign to defend and advance women’s rights in Iran must not be criminalized. We condemn any action by the Iranian authorities aimed at suppressing the women’s rights movement.

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Iran frees women’s right activist, AFP, 17 April 2008.

Iran pressed to free campaigner, BBC News, 12 April 2008.

Khadijeh Moghaddam released after nine days in detention, Change for Equality, 8 April 2008

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