Monday, September 7, 2009

Feminist Attorney Speaks Out Against Rape As a Weapon of Torture in Iran

Source: http://www.meydaan.com/Showarticle.aspx?arid=894
Translated by Frieda Afary (http://iranianvoicesintranslation.blogspot.com)

Shadi Sadr is a young feminist attorney and journalist who has been in the forefront of women’s rights struggles in Iran during the past few years. She was abducted by plainclothes police on July 17, and released eleven days later. She was arrested once before at a women’s rights demonstration in 2006. In this article dated August 14, 2009, she responds to Ayatollah Mehdi Karroubi’s open letter to Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani about the need to investigate the rapes of young protesters imprisoned after the forged June 2009 election. Sadr begins her article specifically with the case of Taraneh Mussavi, a young victim whose identity has been questioned by the Iranian government.

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2 comments:

  1. UnknownNovember 20, 2009 at 4:00 PM

    is there any way to get in contact to mothers of laleh?
    do you know, who is the administrator to your facebookpage? this facebookpage is unattended; I'd like to look after it ...
    every saturday my heart goes with you mothers - I wish my thoughts could protect you!
    uli vsanden from munich

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  2. UnknownJanuary 13, 2010 at 10:03 AM

    WARNING jojo's above comment is the link to a pornographic page in chinese ..

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