Pegah has finally been released. It has been a long and draining road to reach this point but I am relieved that she is safe. We need to stay watchful for the others who remain in custody.
Iranian actress and blogger Pegah Ahangarani is missing amid concerns she may have been arrested in Tehran, RFE/RL's Radio Farda reports. Ahangarani was scheduled to travel to Germany on July 4 to blog about the 2011 women's soccer World Cup for Deutsche Welle.
Farhad Payar, an independent journalist who also works with Deutsche Welle, told Radio Farda on July 13 that Ahangarani was summoned to Iran's Intelligence Ministry the day before her planned departure and warned she would be arrested if she went to the airport.
Payar added that Ahangarani has been missing for the past few days and no one has heard from her. He said that after Ahangarani was threatened she would not go anywhere alone.
Ahangarani had visited Germany in 2009 to blog from the Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale) for Deutsche Welle.
As a member of opposition presidential candidate Mir Hossein Musavi's election campaign team during the disputed June 2009 presidential election, she was summoned and interrogated during the postelection unrest.
A second Iranian woman sports photojournalist, Maryam Majd, who was scheduled to travel to Duesseldorf, Germany on June 17 to report on the women's soccer World Cup, was arrested just before her trip.
Majd, a member of a campaign that supports Iranian women being allowed to attend men's soccer games, is still in custody but it is not known on what charges she is being held.
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The weight of this silence is heavy but seeing this level of attention gives me a reason to keep pushing forward. It is exhausting to face such uncertainty but I will not stop until we have answers about where she is.
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Yasmin Lambert
15 years ago
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Free Pegah! She has done nothing wrong. The world is watching what you are doing in Tehran.
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Elena Owens
15 years ago
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WHERE IS SHE??? Everyone deserves to travel and work without being scared of the government. Praying for her safety.
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Mark Sharpe
15 years ago
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Ridiculous. They are so afraid of a few women with cameras. Let her go back to her family.
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Sarah Gupta
15 years ago
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This is just heartbreaking. Free her now! All she did was go to a soccer game to work. Politics shouldn't stop art and journalism.
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Kevin Ingram
15 years ago
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Total insanity. Hope she is home safe soon
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David Richards
15 years ago
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The regime is proving exactly why people are against them. Taking away a woman for blogging is coward behavior.
Pegah has finally been released. It has been a long and draining road to reach this point but I am relieved that she is safe. We need to stay watchful for the others who remain in custody.
Iranian actress and blogger Pegah Ahangarani is missing amid concerns she may have been arrested in Tehran, RFE/RL's Radio Farda reports. Ahangarani was scheduled to travel to Germany on July 4 to blog about the 2011 women's soccer World Cup for Deutsche Welle.
Farhad Payar, an independent journalist who also works with Deutsche Welle, told Radio Farda on July 13 that Ahangarani was summoned to Iran's Intelligence Ministry the day before her planned departure and warned she would be arrested if she went to the airport.
Payar added that Ahangarani has been missing for the past few days and no one has heard from her. He said that after Ahangarani was threatened she would not go anywhere alone.
Ahangarani had visited Germany in 2009 to blog from the Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale) for Deutsche Welle.
As a member of opposition presidential candidate Mir Hossein Musavi's election campaign team during the disputed June 2009 presidential election, she was summoned and interrogated during the postelection unrest.
A second Iranian woman sports photojournalist, Maryam Majd, who was scheduled to travel to Duesseldorf, Germany on June 17 to report on the women's soccer World Cup, was arrested just before her trip.
Majd, a member of a campaign that supports Iranian women being allowed to attend men's soccer games, is still in custody but it is not known on what charges she is being held.
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The weight of this silence is heavy but seeing this level of attention gives me a reason to keep pushing forward. It is exhausting to face such uncertainty but I will not stop until we have answers about where she is.
Reached 100 supporters
July 16, 2011
9 Comments
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Yasmin Lambert
15 years ago
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Free Pegah! She has done nothing wrong. The world is watching what you are doing in Tehran.
E
Elena Owens
15 years ago
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WHERE IS SHE??? Everyone deserves to travel and work without being scared of the government. Praying for her safety.
M
Mark Sharpe
15 years ago
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Ridiculous. They are so afraid of a few women with cameras. Let her go back to her family.
S
Sarah Gupta
15 years ago
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This is just heartbreaking. Free her now! All she did was go to a soccer game to work. Politics shouldn't stop art and journalism.
K
Kevin Ingram
15 years ago
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Total insanity. Hope she is home safe soon
D
David Richards
15 years ago
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The regime is proving exactly why people are against them. Taking away a woman for blogging is coward behavior.
Free Pegah! She has done nothing wrong. The world is watching what you are doing in Tehran.