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Kurdish women’s rights activist arrested
in Sanandaj, Kurdistan-Iran
4.8.2005
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Roya Toloui, the editor of Rassan, a monthly based
in the Kudish city of Sanandaj
Photo:
Roozonline |
Iran-Kurdistan:
Aug. 04 – A prominent women’s rights activist in
Iranian Kurdistan was arrested during a gathering
organised in protest against the murder of a young
Kurd by Iran’s State Security Forces, a
Persian-language website reported.
The website Rooz reported that Roya Toloui, the
editor of Rassan, a monthly based in the Kudish city
of Sanandaj, was arrested after being summoned by
the intelligence unit of the SSF on several
occasions in the past few months on charges of
“disturbing the peace” and “acting against national
security”. She had also been accused of “inciting
ethnic division”. |
Toloui’s monthly Rassan had so far published three
issues all of which mainly discussed the plight of
female Kurds in Iran.
Born in 1966, Toloui holds a postgraduate degree in
practical science and, with her husband, owns a
medical laboratory in Sanandaj. She is a founding
member of the Association of Kurdish Women in Favour
of Peace in Kurdistan. She has a daughter and a son.
On several occasions, the authorities had warned
Toloui not to carry out interviews with foreign
radio stations.
Iran’s restive Kurdish population have been the
victims of systematic oppression by the Iran’s
clerical leadership since the 1979 Islamic
Revolution.
http://roozonline.com/01newsstory/009127.shtml
IRAN: KURDISH ACTIVIST ARRESTED
(AKI) - Iranian authorities have arrested renowned
Kurdish and women's rights activist, Roya Tolooi, a
move that comes just days after she and other
Iranian Kurds took to the streets demanding more
rights for their ethnic minority. Tolooi who heads
the Association of Kurdish Women for Peace, and also
edits the monthly, Hassan, was arrested in the
Iranian Kurdish city of Sanandaj. In recent months
riots have occured in several Iranian regions
inhabited by the country's ethnic minorities.
Demonstrators demanding greater autonomy clashed
with security forces in Iranian Kurdistan, the Arab
region of Khuzestan, Beluchistan and Iranian
Azerbaijan.
The Persian ethnic group make up some 50 percent of
the Iran's total population of 60 million, but some
23 different enthnic groups live in the country,
including Azeris, Beluchis, Arab, Kurds and
Turkomans.
While the minorities are not descriminated before
the law, the Islamic Republc's central government in
Tehran refuses to delegate any power to the ethnic
regions.
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