Three Iranian women journalists were recently arrested on their way to attend a journalism conference in India and face prosecution. According to a report on the Ms. Magazine website,
“Two of the three, Talat Taghinia and Mansoureh Shojai write for online journal Zanestan (which translates to “City of Women”), an Iranian web-based journal that advocates for women’s rights. The third woman, Farnaz Seify, runs a popular feminist blog, farnaaz.com.
The women were escorted from the airport to their homes, where their computers, notes, and books were seized, and were then put in prison. They were released the next day, without their belongings or passports, to face a hearing in two months.”
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