On June 18, 2008, 21-year-old and women’s rights activist Hana Abdi was sentenced to a five-year prison term in the West Azarbaijan Province after having been in detention since her arrest in November 2007. The Sanandaj Revolutionary Court issued Abdi the sentence on charges of “gathering and collusion to threaten national security.” What had Abdi been doing that posed such a threat to national security? She had been collecting signatures on behalf of the One Million Signatures Campaign for Equality, a grassroots effort to collect one million signatures in support of changes to discriminatory laws against women. Because of this she was given the maximum prison sentence possible...(CLICK POST TITLE TO READ FULL ARTICLE)
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