Iran News ( Female student activist arrested - Human rights reporter sent to Evin prison )

27 July 2013

Student activist Maryam Shafipour arrested

Keywords : Political Prisoners

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Committee of Human Rights Reporters – Maryam Shafipour, student activist banned from continuing her education has been transferred to Evin prison.

According to CHRR, today July 27th, Maryam Shafipour was detained after she appeared at Branch 2 of Shahid Moghaddas Court per order of a summons, and was transferred behind bars at Evin prison.

Maryam Shafipour is a women’s rights campaigner and student activist who in the past served as a member of the Central Council of the Critics Association of Qazvin University, and was staff at Female Students for Karoubi Presidential Campaign. She was previously detained in 2010 due to her work as an activist and was handed a one-year suspended prison sentence by the Qazvin Revolutionary Court