Sunday, October 22, 2006

Human Rights: Iran freezes assets of Iranian feminist

A court in Sanandaj, in Iranian Kurdistan, has ordered the confiscation of all the assets of Kurdish feminist Roya Tolouii, a journalist and doctor arrested and then released last year on bail.

The court ordered that Tolouii's assets be seized after it tried her in absentia and found her guilty of threatening national security.

Tolouii now lives in the U.S.