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Women's groups in Iran |
16ÌýNovemberÌý2004 |
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WhyÌýthey fear governmentÌýmoves against them
When the human rights lawyer Shirin Ebadi won the Nobel Peace Prize last year, many in the West felt it signalled a new era for women’s rights in Iran. But with the recent arrest of a leading feminist journalist, Mahboubeh Abbas-Gholizadeh, that confidence has been shaken.
Jenni talks to Haleh Afshar, the Iranian-born Professor Of Politics at York University to find out why international women’s groups fear their activists are again being targeted by the Iranian government.
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