Jailed Women's Rights Activist Needs Your Help

Jailed Women's Rights Activist Needs Your Help

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Dr. Roya Toloui, a champion of the rights of Iran's Kurdish
minority and of women, was detained from her home in Sanandaj on
August 2. She is reported to be facing charges of "disturbing
the peace" and "acting against national security." Human Rights
First is calling for her immediate and unconditional release
from detention.

Toloui's detention is consistent with a pattern of harassment
and persecution that she and other human rights activists in
Iran's Kurdish region have suffered in recent months in reprisal
for their legitimate, peaceful activities in support of basic
rights and freedoms.

There has been mounting unrest in Iran's Kurdish region since
the presidential elections in late June, which saw the election
of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a candidate closely identified with
Iran's ruling clerical establishment. President Ahmadinejad is
viewed as hostile to Kurdish aspirations for greater equality
and respect for their distinct cultural and religious
traditions.

Roya Toloui is an outspoken critic of the policies of the
Islamic Republic and its negative impact on the rights of women
and religious and ethnic minorities. She and other human rights
activists in Kordestan and West Azerbaijan provinces have been
vocal in protesting a wave of repression unleashed on the region
in recent weeks that has resulted in more than twenty deaths and
hundreds of arrests of protesters. Regional magazines that
reported on the unrest have been closed by the authorities, but
information about continuing disturbances in the region
continues to reach the outside world.

At this time of tension in Iran the role of independent human
rights monitors is vital. Don't let the Iranian government
commit human rights violations behind a cloak of secrecy. Please
join Human Rights First in calling for the immediate release of
Dr. Toloui and her colleagues.

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