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Feministschool: More than 300 civil society activists and equal rights defenders have requested Mahdieh Golroo’s release by signing and sending a letter to the Iranian President, which accompanies this letter. Some of the signatures are: Nasrin Sotoudeh, Nargess Mohamadi, Shahla Lahiji, Noushin Ahmadi Khorasani, Jila Baniyaghoub, Isa Saharkhiz, Douther’s Zahra Rahnavard (Nargess and Zahra Mousavi), Fakhrolsadat Mohtashamipour and...
Mahdieh Golrou is one of members of the Iranian Women (...)

Feministschool: Mahdieh Golroo, a women’s rights activist, was arrested in her house on October 26,2014 by security forces after inspecting and confiscating her personal belongings . Mahdieh Golroo along with some Women Rights Activists who had participated in a peaceful protest on October 22, their protest was held in response to the recent acid attacks on women in Isfahan.
Mahdieh Golroo, born on the 24th of August 1985-Tehran, is a student and women’s right activist, a member of the (...)

Feministschool: The wonderful exposition „Additional Years – New Age for elder women“ in Women’s Museum in Fürth/Germany had ist finissage on the last week-end of September.
During two summers this exposition gave place to most interesting meetings and very intense discussions about the new “time†women gaun, while reaching senior level and getting older froom decennium to decennium. Average age accomplished nowadays is 84 years for women and 78 years for men (in Germany).
Feminist school wrote (...)

FeministSchool: The German Section of the International Society for Human Rights (IGFM) held its 41st Annual Conference in Bonn this past weekend whereNasrin Sotoudeh’s honorary membership and appointment to the advisory board of the International Society for Human Rights was announced. Nasrin Sotoudeh is one of Iran’s most-known human rights activists and an attorney who represents numerous women’s rights activists andmembers of the democracy movement. Because of her work for human rights, (...)

FeministSchool: Some Iranian women’s rights activists gathered in front of Tehran Prosecutor to present a letter to prosecutors to raise concern about Nasrin Sotoudeh’s conditions. They had written the letter about the dire situation of Nasrin sotoudeh, who has been on hunger strike for more than 45 days.
The letter was addressed to the Prosecutor General of Tehran, Jafari-dolatabadi. They declared by the letter, their support of the demands of Nasrin Sotoudeh and demanded that she be (...)

Feminist School: On 9 June 2012, Noushin Ahmadi Khorasani, women’s rights activist and one of the founders of the One Million Signatures Campaign, was sentenced to one year’s suspended imprisonment and five years of probation. Her lawyer, Farideh Gheirat was informed of her sentence on 9 June 2012.
On 22 Sep. 2010, Noushin Ahmadi Khorasani was released after she appeared before the Evin Prison Court “to provide some explanations,†and was informed of the charges against her. The court found (...)

Feminist School:The following statement has been endorsed by over 160 prominent Iranian women’s rights advocates, activists and scholars living abroad. This was meant to show solidarity with women’s rights activists inside Iran and echo their voices internationally. Despite the continuous repression of civil rights advocates inside Iran, over 70 courageous women from different political backgrounds came together and issued a statement against domestic and state violence in Iran. Faced with (...)

Feminist School: a group of women activist inside Iran celebrate the International Day against Violence against Women by sending a statement on this occasion. In this message, they expressed their concerns about the widespread violence against women in Iran and criticized the confrontational and hostile policies, domestic and international, adopted in this regard by the officials and the government of Iran. Among the signatories of this statement one finds the name of activists from a (...)

The Feminist School : Nasrin Sotoudeh , lawyer, human rights and women’s rights activist has addressed a letter to the head of Iran’s judiciary. Inspired by Paulo Coelho, Sotoudeh provides a beautiful narrative of the events that occurred after the presidential elections of June 2009. According to reports by the Feminist School, though Nasrin Sotoudeh’s letter to the judiciary was written after her sentence was handed down by the Revolutionary Court, it is being published for the first time (...)

Feminist School: Nasrin Sotoudeh a lawyer and activist of women’s movement charged with 11 years imprisonment and 20 years barred from practice and leaving the country.
Nasrin was transferred to evin prison and became the cell mate with Haleh Sahabi in the political wing of the prison for women activists Hale was serving her 2 year sentence.
The following letter from Nasrin Sotoudeh 3 days after the death of Hale Sahabi who was bitten up during her father’s burial.
My dearest Haleh, (...)