Esha Momeni, an American student visiting Iran and active in the women’s rights movement, is being held in an Iranian prison notorious for torture. Her arrest comes as the repressive government of Pres. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has cracked down on the One Million Signatures movement, which urges equal rights in a nation where women are treated as second-class citizens.
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