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Women’s rights activists Mahboubeh Hossein Zadeh and Nahid Keshavarz remain in prison since April 2, 2007 for collecting signatures in support of the “One Million Signatures Campaign” demanding changes to discriminatory laws against women, have recorded their experiences among female inmates. Translated by Sussan Tahmasebi. Also see ’s “What will they do“.
“Our husbands are lying in enclosed graves and we are in open graves. We too ceased to live the very day that we killed our husbands.” These are the words of a woman who spends her nights on the three story bed across from me. Her nights are filled with nightmares about the death of her husband–a husband she stabbed to death.
