Bahareh Hedayat

Bahareh Hedayat (Persian: بهاره هدایت , born 1981) is an Iranian student activist[1] 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,[2] and in 2010 was sentenced to nine and a half years' imprisonment[3] for anti-state propaganda.[4][5][6][7]

Hedayat is a founding member of a petition for women's rights in Iran called the One Million Signatures campaign.[8][9]

She graduated from the University of Economic Sciences in Tehran.[10] She was a student at the University of Tehran in the School of Economics.[11][12]
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.[13]

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.

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