Bahareh Hedayat, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Bahareh Hedayat

Iranian activist

Date of Birth: 05-Apr-1981

Place of Birth: Tehran, Tehran Province, Iran

Profession: human rights activist, activist

Nationality: Iran

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About Bahareh Hedayat

  • Bahareh Hedayat (Persian: ????? ??????, born 1981) is an Iranian student activist and campaigner for women's rights.
  • She was arrested on July 9, 2007, and on August 9, 2007 but 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.Hedayat is a founding member of a petition for women's rights in Iran known as 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.In 2012 Hedayat was awarded with the Edelstam Prize for outstanding contributions and exceptional courage in standing up for one’s beliefs in the defense of Human Rights.

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