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June 19, 2006

Iran Frees Women's Rights Activists

Baton-wielding female police officers helped to break up the June 12 gathering (file photo) (Fars)

PRAGUE, June 19, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- Iran has released all but one of the protesters detained last week during a demonstration against legal discrimination against women in Iran.

Iran's ILNA news agency named the one person still under detention as a reform-minded former member of parliament, Ali Akbar Moussavi Khoeini.


The Iranian authorities arrested 70 people, including 42 women, at the June 12 protest, saying the gathering was "illegal."


A number of women were beaten when the police moved in to break up the rally, prompting condemnation by human rights groups.


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