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her lips quiet. She attempted to obtain information about her husband through official agencies and human rights organizations, as well as her and her daughters Leila and Azadeh's appeals to foreign radio and television networks, were unsuccessful. Mr. Pourzand was found in the
Islamic Republic's jails some weeks after his disappearance, charged with spying and harming national security. The Tehran Press Court condemned him to eight years in prison on May 3, 2002. In the interim, on January 8, 2002, Mehrangiz Kar's final sentence was lowered to six months in prison.
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She was released on bail before going to trial on medical conditions and then traveled to the United States for breast cancer treatment. Her husband, Siamak
Pourzand, who was also an outspoken critic of the regime, vanished after she left, and Mehrangiz faced intense pressure from Teheran to keep
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She was one of the first women attorneys to oppose the
Islamization of gender relations following the Iranian Revolution of 1979. Kar has been an active public defender in Iran’s civil and criminal courts and has lectured extensively, both in Iran and abroad, on political, legal and constitutional
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She was arrested on 29 April 2000, for participating in a Berlin academic conference on political and social reform in Iran with leading
Iranian writers and intellectuals. She was tried behind closed doors with no right to a lawyer and sentenced to four years in prison on grotesque and arbitrary
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in Iran. Born in 1944 at Ahvaz, in southern Iran, she attended the
College of Law and Political Science at Teheran University. After graduating, she worked for Sazman-e Ta’min-e Ejtemaii (Institute of Social Security) and published over 100 articles on social and political issues.
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Scholar at Risk through an international network of universities and colleges working to promote academic freedom and to defend the human rights of scholars worldwide. She currently works in
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