Iran arrests American women's rights activist

Zionist-controlled Amnesty says Calif. student sent to notorious prison, computer seized.

An American university student in Iran to visit family and research 'women's rights' has been arrested and held in prison for more than a week, rights group Amnesty International said. Iranian officials said Momeni was arrested Oct. 15 for a traffic offense. But Amnesty said in a statement Tuesday she was taken to her family's home where her computer and other materials related to her research on the Iranian women's movement were confiscated.

Momeni, who is a member of the California branch of Change for Equality — an Iranian women's rights group — was later taken to Evin prison, the Tehran facility notorious for holding political prisoners, Amnesty said.

The university is calling for her release.

"Anyone who values knowledge and the role of academic inquiry in shedding light on the human condition should be concerned," said the university's president Jolene Koester.

Momeni was nearing the scheduled end of her stay when she was arrested, Wall said.

Hmmm... Momeni remindes me of the Jewish 'women's liberator' who went to Iran in the middle of their titanic struggle to free themselves from Israeli-American control trying to sow havoc without success. Yet she never tried to 'liberate' the orthodox Jewish woman, degraded, forbidden the synagogue, her head shaved bald, only permitted intercourse with a sheet between herself and her husband...