Women’s rights activist Maryam Bahreman remains in detention despite an order from the Prosecutor’s office in Shiraz to release her on bail at the start of July. Amnesty International considers her to be a prisoner of conscience, held solely for the peaceful exercise of her rights to freedom of expression and association. Between her arrest on 11 May and 5 July 2011, Maryam Bahreman was held in solitary confinement in Detention Centre No. 100 in Shiraz, which is controlled by the (...)