Equality rights dangerous

Women's rights are still a rarity around the world. The dangers that people campaigning for equality face are non-trivial. Remember the woman who headed the sex crimes unit in Afghanistan -- killed because she was a woman.

Iran Accuses Detained US Student Of Security Offense

TEHRAN (AFP)--Iranian-U.S. student Esha Momeni, who has been held behind bars in Tehran since mid-October, is accused of a security offense in the Islamic republic, the judiciary spokesman said Tuesday (. . . ) Last month, her lawyer Mohammad Ali Dadkhah told AFP that she was arrested on Oct. 15 for her involvement with a women's rights equality campaign. Momeni, a graduate student at the Northridge campus of California State University, had traveled to Iran to carry out research for her thesis on women's rights, the lawyer said. ( . . . ) she holds both Iranian and U.S. nationality.