Shiva Nazar Ahari

Shiva Nazar Ahari (Persian Shiva Nazar Ahari شیوا نظر آهاری; born June 10, 1984) is an Iranian human rights activist, journalist and blogger.

Life

Shiva Nazar Ahari is a founding member and was the spokesperson for the Students' Committee of Defense politicher prisoner and was arrested in this connection in August 2004 and a five - year sentence were suspended by the four years on probation, convicted. She is also a member of the Committee of Human Rights Rapporteur. She was arrested two days after the controversial and accompanied by strong protests from presidential elections in her home on June 14, 2009. Your lawyer Shadi Sadr was born on July 19, 2009 also arrested and released on 28 July, again in the context of a decreed by Ali Chamene'i prison closure.

On 21 December 2009 Ahari was arrested on the way to Qom to attend the funeral of Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, a major figure in the opposition camp. She was instigating a conspiracy, the holding of illegal meetings, propaganda against the regime, disturbance of public order and an " enemy of God" to be accused. She was also accused of supporting the Volksmodschahedin, an opposition organization, which is on the terrorist list of the United States. Ahari denied all the allegations. On 12 September 2010 Ahari was released after a payment of 395,000 euro bail from Evin prison. A week later, she was sentenced to six years in prison for " anti-state activities." Your defender immediately announced it would appeal.

In March 2010, the Iranian human rights lawyer and women's rights activist Shadi Sadr was dedicated this year's International Women of Courage woman Price Award from the U.S. Department of State Ahari. Sadr did not attend the ceremony and explained her absence by saying, " in the hope that my absence draws the attention of the international community for their terrible situation ."

Ahari is also one of the initiators of three years ago launched " One Million Signatures " campaign, which calls for women's equality before the law.

She was honored on April 17, 2011 in the absence of the Theodor Haecker Prize.