Iranian women campaign for greater rights (The Washington Times)
May 31, 2009 / Author: / Category: Jean NewsTEHRAN | Dressed in blue jeans and a purple tunic with an obligatory head scarf barely covering her hair, Maryam Mirza described her recent arrest in the growing campaign for equal rights for women in Iran. “I was one of 33 women arrested for protesting in front of our Revolutionary Court,” she said over a lunch of chicken kebabs and nonalcoholic beer at a Tehran hotel. “Policemen and soldiers …
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