Iran: Bahareh Hedayat Serving Ten-year Sentence - ONLINE PETITION

Bahareh Hedayat, a women's rights and student activist,  is serving a ten-year prison sentence in Evin Prison. Ms Hedayat was involved with The Campaign for Equality which had been advocating for equitable treatment of women under Iran's family laws, and was also a member of the Central Committee of the Office for the Consolidation of Unity, a national student body which has been active in calling for political reform and opposing human rights violations. She was arrested in December 2009 and charged with several “offenses”, including “interviews with foreign media,” “insulting the leader,” “insulting the president,” and “disrupting public order through participating in illegal gatherings.”  She has served more than half of sentence by now and is eligible for early release. Please go to change.org/p/free-bahareh and sign the petition. Bahareh's birthday and wedding anniversary are coming up soon and we want her to be able to celebrate with her family. She has already spent too many birthdays and anniversaries languishing in Evin Prison.