Radio Zamaneh/2009-11-10 - Zhila Bani-Yaghoub, Iranian women’s activist and journalist was released on August 18 with a one-billion-rial bail after two months in Evin prison. She was arrested on June 20 along with her husband, Bahman Ahmadi Amouyi, economic analyst and journalist.

Ms. Bani-Yaghoub is the editor-in-chief of Iranian Women’s Council website and a member of the One-Million Signatures Campaign. She has collaborated with numerous reformist publications and newspapers and was arrested three times prior to this for attending protest rallies and campaigns organized by the women’s movement.

Iranian authorities arrested over four thousand people in connection with the post-election protests that contest Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s victory in the June presidential elections in Iran. Whilst over three thousand of these detainees were released, mostly by putting up exorbitant bails, those who are still in prison raise the concern of all social and human rights activists, especially those who have suffered through the ordeal themselves, like Zhila Bani-Yaghoub.

Ms. Bani-Yaghoub’s concern for her husband is touchingly documented in her November 5th post on her website