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Agence France Presse – Iranian security forces on Sunday arrested around 30 women’s rights activists rallying outside a Tehran court where a group of their fellow campaigners were on trial over a demonstration last year. <\/p>\nAgence France Presse – Iranian security forces on Sunday arrested around 30 women’s rights activists rallying outside a Tehran court where a group of their fellow campaigners were on trial over a demonstration last year. <\/p>\n
"My clients and other women who had gathered in front of the court were arrested," Nasrin Sotoodeh, the lawyer for the accused, was quoted as saying by the ISNA news agency. <\/p>\n
Agence France Presse – Iranian security forces on Sunday arrested around 30 women’s rights activists rallying outside a Tehran court where a group of their fellow campaigners were on trial over a demonstration last year. <\/p>\n
"My clients and other women who had gathered in front of the court were arrested," Nasrin Sotoodeh, the lawyer for the accused, was quoted as saying by the ISNA news agency. <\/p>\n
According to unofficial reports, around 30 people were detained, including some of the most prominent women’s rights activists in Iran.
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The protestors had gathered in front of the revolutionary court in solidarity with five women on trial over their roles in a demonstration which was broken up by police in June last year. <\/p>\n
Nushin Ahmadi Khorasani, Parvin Ardalan, Shahla Entesari, Susan Tahmasebi and Fariba Davudi Mohajer were standing trial for organising an "unauthorised" rally to ask for equal rights for women. <\/p>\n
It was not clear which of the accused were among those arrested. <\/p>\n
Sotoodeh later told AFP that the arrested activists had been transferred to the notorious Evin prison in northern Tehran.<\/p>\n
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"The families of those (arrested) who do not have a problem have been told to bring in property documents to bail them out," the lawyer said. "But this does not apply to those who do have a problem." <\/p>\n
Sotoodeh said that the authorities have still not officially said how many people were arrested and or released their names. <\/p>\n
Seventy people, most of them women, were arrested at the protest last June when they called for improved rights and changes to laws discriminating against women. <\/p>\n
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Under Iranian law, married women have to go through a lengthy process to be granted a divorce, and the testimony of two women is equal to that of one man. <\/p>\n
Rights groups claimed that some demonstrators at that protest were beaten by the police. <\/p>\n
Those arrested in June were all subsequently released, although one detained protester, reformist ex-MP Ali-Akbar Musavi Khoini, was held in prison until October. <\/p>\n
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