Change for
Equality: Nasim Sarabandi and Fatemeh Dehdashti, members of the "One
Million Signatures Campaign", which aims to change discriminatory laws against
women, were summoned to the Security section of the Revolutionary Courts and
interrogated on Wednesday April 18, 2007. These two women had been arrested in
January, and held in detention at Gisha prison for 24 hours. It was believed
that their case had been closed upon their release, but this latest summons and
interrogation in court, demonstrates that there has been a change in their
processing of their cases.
Nasim and Fatemeh, both students at Tehran
University explain that: "they security offices at the University called us in.
When we arrived at the security offices, they explained to us that we have been
summoned by the Security Police. On the 18th of April we went to Eshrat Abad,
the headquarters of the Security Police, where we were once again interrogated
and later transferred to Special Prosecutor’s Office on Security, at the
Revolutionary Courts, where we were interrogated and charged. Court officials
told us that we are charged with "actions against national security through the
spread of propaganda against the state. Of course, in our last defense of
ourselves we rejected the charge." Fatemeh Dehdashti and Nasim Sarabandi were
released on bail of a third party guarantee.