iran is kind of sucking when it comes to human rights...

one of the first, okay well the first, things that amnesty international ever did was to work for the release of prisoners of conscience or pocs which are defined by amnesty international as:

"Any person who is physically restrained (by imprisonment or otherwise) from expressing (in any form of words or symbols) any opinion which he honestly holds and which does not advocate or condone personal violence." ... also exclude those people who have conspired with a foreign government to overthrow their own..."

and so it seems that the regime in iran is jailing prisoners of conscience out the yin yang including but not limited to teachers, students, and women's rights advocates...for example:

Dozens of teachers, mostly members of local Teachers' Associations or the National Council of Teachers' Associations, have been detained in recent weeks in connection with demonstrations which began in March 2007 by teachers demanding higher pay and working conditions.

and ...

Bizhan Sabagh, an engineering student at Mazandaran University who had previously been suspended by the university disciplinary committee for one term in connection with his student activities, was arrested on 14 April 2007 by security officials in front of the university...

not to mention that ...

Bizhan Sabagh, an engineering student at Mazandaran University who had previously been suspended by the university disciplinary committee for one term in connection with his student activities, was arrested on 14 April 2007 by security officials in front of the university...Five women active in the "Million Signatures Campaign" were arrested on 2 April 2007 while collecting signatures in support of an end to discriminatory legislation against women in Iran...

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peace out <3