Name Mansoureh Shojaee | Role Writer | |
Mansoureh Shojaee (born 21 August 1958 in Tehran, Iran), is a leading Iranian women's rights activist and writer.
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Life
Mansoureh Shojaee is one of the founding members of the One Million Signatures Campaign, attempting to collect a million signatures for women's equal rights. As a part of the campaign she has taken part in protests that have been violently silenced.
In the 1990s Shojaee, along with e.g. Noushin Ahmadi Khorasani and some others, established the Women's Cultural Centre (Markaz-e Farhangi-ye Zanan), which since then has been a center for forming opinions, analyzing and documenting the women's issues in Iran.She is also one of the founding members of Sediqeh Dowlatabadi's library. The Library is for Iranian women and about Iranian women' researchers.
Mansoureh Shojaee along with Shirin Ebadi established "Iranian Women Museum" in Iran.
One of her activities was in The Children Books Council of Iran (IBBYIR) for 10 years from 1994 to 2004 where she was in charge of providing library for blind Children through providing talking books and learning how to provide a talking book. she was awarded Testimonial Statute honors through IBBYIR (the international Board of Books for young People) in 2010.
Mansoureh Shojaee was arrested at her home in the early hours of December 29 after Ashura Protests.
Police agents arrived to her home at 11:30 p.m. on 28 December 2009 and waited for her with her son present, until Shojaee and her husband arrived home at 3:30 a.m. The agents then arrested Shojaee and transferred her to prison. Police officials inspected her house and collected some of her personal belongings as well as her mobile phone and computer, before taking her to prison.
Security officials refused to reveal the location of her detention or the charge she has been arrested for.
Shojaee was arrested twice before; once in the airport while she was traveling to New Delhi for an educational journalism workshop on January 26, 2007, and for the second time, during campaign activities in Khorramabad on September 14, 2007. Since then she has not been allowed her passport and is prohibited to leave the country.
Mansoureh Shojaee wrote an article about Ashura Protest before she was arrested.