TEHRAN — Two prominent Iranian women’s rights activists detained for demonstrating outside a Tehran court were released Monday on bail of more than $200,000, their lawyers said.
“Shadi Sadr and Mahboubeh Abbas Gholizadeh were released today on bail,” Farideh Gheyrat said of the two, who were arrested with 31 other activists March 4 for demonstrating outside a revolutionary court.
Sadr and Abbas Gholizadeh were released on 2-billion-Iranian-riyal ($215,000) and 2.5 billion riyal bails, respectively, Gheyrat said.
The two were given a one-month temporary detention order for charges undisclosed to their lawyer, in addition to the accusations of disturbing public order faced by all those detained.
Within a few days of the arrests, Iranian authorities freed all the other women who gathered to show solidarity with five feminists on trial for organizing a protest last year against Iran’s “discriminatory” laws for women.
Sadr is known both in Iran and abroad for her work defending women faced with death sentences for killing potential rapists as well as for campaigning against stoning as a method of capital punishment.
Abbas Gholizadeh is a leading journalist and women’s rights activist who spent a month in jail in 2004 in a crackdown on cyber journalists and reformist Webloggers.
Women’s rights activists in Iran have over the past year been protesting against articles in Iranian law that are seen as discriminating against women.
The activists on trial have also been involved in a petition campaign dubbed “One Million Signatures” which seeks to change Iran’s “unfair” laws against women by collecting signatures, either online or in person.
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