Since the attacks against Shirin Ebadi’s home and offices in January 2009, multiple arrests have been made on human rights defenders in association with the Nobel Peace Laureate.

On 14 January, Jinus Sobhani, former secretary to human rights groups of Ebadi’s co-founding, was arrested . According to Coordinator of the International Campaign for Human Rights , Hadi Ghaemi, “If the Center was indeed closed on account of its lack of registration, then why arrest a staff member who has already lost her job? The arrest appears to confirm that the closure of the Center was politically motivated.”

Two weeks later, three members of the One Million Signatures Campaign, a grassroots campaign to reform gender discrimination in Iranian laws, were arrested while collecting signatures in northern Tehran. Additionally, dozens of women’s rights activists were arrested and charged for participating in a peaceful protest in 2006. One such activist, Alieh Eghdamdoust, has now been undertaken by security agents to serve a mandatory 3-year prison sentence. The verdict awaits for the rest.

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