Pressure

Three Iranian Women's Rights Activists Arrested.

Tala't Taghinia, Mansoureh Shojaie, and Farnaz Seify, women's rights activists, journalists, and members of the Women's Cultural Center, were arrested at Imam Khomeini Airport in Tehran, while trying to exist the country to attend a journalism training in New Delhi India. After their arrest, security forces escorted the three activists to their homes, where their personal affects, such as their books, computers and computer cases, were searched and seized. After a search of their homes, these three activists were transferred to Evin Prison, 209th Ward.

At Five in the Afternoon

lady sun: "Women participating in the demonstration were beaten and arrested an hour ago. I just read in this blog and this one that the demonstration was brutally suppressed without even being started.
This blog says that Jila Bani Yaghoub, an Iranian prominent journalist was handcuffed and arrested.
I have no news about my friends. I should go to school now. I'll try to update more as soon as I get any news. Damn it...

*Update: One of my friends who was in an office near Hafte Tir square told me in yahoo messenger that there were a lot of policewomen with teargas. They had also red sprays to put on women, so that they would be recognized in case of escaping. She also said that the event was badly organized and not a single location in the big square was selected from before. So people were scattered in different parts of the square. She said some people were taken to jail and some people were taken to hospitals."

see bbc

Summer

A rice field, Rasht, Iran.
[photo by: Parastoo Dokouhaki | July 2009]