Arash Ashoorinia

International Women's Day: A Call to Action in Iran, by The Organization for Women's Liberation-Iran

We are going to celebrate International Women's Day by organizing gatherings, demonstrations and declaring "NO to women's oppression!," "No to the veil!," "No to gender apartheid" and "Long live women's liberation." Let's declare that we will not stop until our demands are met.

33 Activist Women Arrested in Tehran (Washington Post)

Practically the entire top layer of the women's movement in Iran, except for Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi, who happens to be in Italy, is in jail. — Hadi Ghaemi, Human Rights Watch

Tehran's Fundamentalist Regime Launches a Pre-emptive Crackdown and Arrest on the Eve of International Women's Day (Women's Forum Against Fundamentalism in Iran)

WFAFI applauds the courageous women of Iran who actively oppose the gender apartheid and call upon the international community, the human rights and women's rights organizations to hold Tehran responsible for its crimes against women.

Call for Action: Women Activists Arrested in Tehran! We Need Your Help!, by Azadeh Pourzand

The organizers of the two major current campaigns, Stop Stoning Forever, and One Million Signatures to Change the Discriminatory Law, have been among the women rights defenders [arrested] by the National Security Police.

For more photos and coverage of Sunday's protest, visit Iranian blogger Omid Memarian's site.