Mansoureh Shojaee

Mansoureh Shojaee (born 21 August 1958 in Tehran, Iran), is a leading Iranian women's rights activist and writer.

Life

Mansoureh Shojaee is one of the founding members of the One Million Signatures Campaign, attempting to collect a million signatures for women's equal rights. As a part of the campaign she has taken part in protests that have been violently silenced.

In the 1990s Shojaee, along with e.g. Noushin Ahmadi Khorasani and some others, established the Women's Cultural Centre (Markaz-e Farhangi-ye Zanan), which since then has been a center for forming opinions, analyzing and documenting the women's issues in Iran.She is also one of the founding members of Sediqeh Dowlatabadi's library. The Library is for Iranian women and about Iranian women' researchers.

Mansoureh Shojaee along with Shirin Ebadi established "Iranian Women Museum" in Iran.

One of her activities was in The Children Books Council of Iran (IBBYIR) for 10 years from 1994 to 2004 where she was in charge of providing library for blind Children through providing talking books and learning how to provide a talking book. she was awarded Testimonial Statute honors through IBBYIR (the international Board of Books for young People) in 2010.

Mansoureh Shojaee was arrested at her home in the early hours of December 29 after Ashura Protests.

Police agents arrived to her home at 11:30 p.m. on 28 December 2009 and waited for her with her son present, until Shojaee and her husband arrived home at 3:30 a.m. The agents then arrested Shojaee and transferred her to prison. Police officials inspected her house and collected some of her personal belongings as well as her mobile phone and computer, before taking her to prison.

Security officials refused to reveal the location of her detention or the charge she has been arrested for.

Shojaee was arrested twice before; once in the airport while she was traveling to New Delhi for an educational journalism workshop on January 26, 2007, and for the second time, during campaign activities in Khorramabad on September 14, 2007. Since then she has not been allowed her passport and is prohibited to leave the country.

Mansoureh Shojaee wrote an article about Ashura Protest before she was arrested.

• Mass Arrests of Women and Civil Society Activists in Iran Continue
• Arrest of 19 Activists from the Women’s Movement, Women Journalists and Civil Activists
• Help Free Courageous Iranian Activists / Feminist Majority

Some of her articles

• We're Encountering Unlistening Ears: But Iranian Mothers and Daughters are Screaming
• A Journey to the Seven Loveless Realms of Violence on the Anniversary of Universal Day to Stop Violence against Women
• The Women Goat sellers of Minab: Workers? Sheppards? Wives? Mothers?.....
• The Daughters of Happy Alleys and Safe Streets/The Daughters of Murderous Cities and Blood-Spattered Land
• The History of International Women’s Day in Iran
• Zur kampagne „Eine Million Unterschriften für Gleichberechtigung“

• Bad Jens -Inauguration of the Women’s Library and Resource Center on March 8, 2005
• The Feminist School
• Archive | Deutsche Welle Archived 1 May 2009 at the Wayback Machine.
• Iran: Call for release of human rights defenders and prisoners of conscience | Women Reclaiming and Redefining Cultures
• Maria de França, Mansoureh Shojaii arrétée en Iran - La Règle du Jeu
• Change for Equality
• http://www.roozonline.com/english/interview/interview/article/2008/september/01//current-laws-are-for-primitive-societies.html. Retrieved 23 January 2010. 
• Azadeh Pourzand: A Beautiful Angel in a Dark Prison
• The Feminist School
• Iran: Increasing attacks on Women Human Rights Defenders / January 30, 2007 / Urgent Interventions / Violence against women / OMCT
• Mansoureh Shojaei | Front Line
• Do Signature Campaign Activists Belong on Trial? | Women News Network
• Iran: More Social Figures Barred from Exiting Country
• Sister Of Iran's Nobel Laureate Shirin Ebadi Arrested
• 2009 Ashura protests
• The Feminist School
• PAIC - Progressive American-Iranian Committee » Human Rights
• 19 out of the 23 Activists from the - The Feminist School
• Feminist Majority Foundation (Help Free Courageous Iranian Activists)
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• The Feminist School
• The Women Goat sellers of Minab: Workers? - The Feminist School
• The Daughters of Happy Alleys and Safe Streets - The Feminist School
• The History of International Women's Day in Iran - The Feminist School
• Zur kampagne „Eine Million Unterschriften für ... - The Feminist School