UPDATE: Iran: Two women's rights defenders now in solitary confinement
Shadi Sadr and Mahboubeh Abasgholizadeh have been arraigned, charged with being a "threat to national security," and remanded on March 11 by interrogators at Evin Prison, authorized by the Ministry of Intelligence of Iran.
Submitted on Tue, 03/13/2007 - 00:00
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