IRAN: Human rights lawyer Shadi Sadr reportedly arrested
Prominent lawyer, women's rights activist and journalist Shadi Sadr was arrested by plainclothes policemen on her way to Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani's much-anticipated Friday sermon, according to several reformist websites.
The activist group blog Mothers of Laleh reported that Sadr was walking with several other female activists when she was approached by individuals in civilian dress who refused to show a warrant before forcing her into a waiting car.
Conflicting reports say she called her husband to ask for a computer password or a cellphone personal identification number, but her whereabouts are still unknown.
Sadr, who also edits the Farsi news website womeniniran.com, was arrested and held for two weeks in 2007. She has clashed with authorities numerous times over her outspoken stance on women's rights and capital punishment.
-- Meris Lutz in Beirut
Photo: Lawyer Shadi Sadr was reportedly arrested on her way to Friday prayers.
That's what happens when you make the Shah of Iran mad.
Shah Khomeini has really turned out to worst than the previous Shah. I hear he is trying to have he's son succeed him....................
Posted by: myfailsafe | July 17, 2009 at 08:25 AM