Sept 9, 2016
Your letters of support inspired Bahareh to persevere through long days and months in prison. And your signatures – over 130,000 in all – focused the world’s attention on the Iranian government’s treatment of Bahareh and hundreds more political prisoners.
Bahareh’s case is especially close to our heart. A number of United for Iran staff, including Reza Ghazinouri and Mehdi Aminizadeh, know Bahareh personally and worked alongside her as human rights activists in Iran.
Bahareh was imprisoned for nothing more than peaceful activism for the rights of students and women. She was arrested the day before her wedding. While in prison in 2011, she was given an extra six months for writing a letter about the conditions of other student activists.
