Bahareh Hedayat

Bahareh Hedayat (Persian: بهاره هدایت‎‎, born 1981) is an Iranian student activist and campaigner for women's rights. She was arrested on July 9, 2007. On August 9, 2007 she was released on bail. She was again arrested and released in 2008, and in 2010 was sentenced to nine and a half years' imprisonment for anti-state propaganda.

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• International solidarity with iranian student movement bahareh hedayat
• Bahareh hedayat s messege from iranian students to the european union
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Hedayat is a founding member of a petition for women's rights in Iran called the One Million Signatures campaign.

She graduated from the University of Economic Sciences in Tehran. She was a student at the University of Tehran in the School of Economics.
On June 14, 2016, the United Nation’s Working Group on Arbitrary Detention issued an opinion demanding Hedayat's immediate release, her imprisonment since 2009 being arbitrary and against international law.

Hedayat was in 2012 awarded with the Edelstam Prize for outstanding contributions and exceptional courage in standing up for one’s beliefs in the defense of Human Rights.