Fatemeh Haghighatjou

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Reformist MP Fatemeh Haghighatjou, a staunch advocate of women's rights, was sentenced by Iran's Judiciary to 22 months in prison for "working against the Islamic Republic".
Reformist MP Fatemeh Haghighatjou, a staunch advocate of women's rights, was sentenced by Iran's Judiciary to 22 months in prison for "working against the Islamic Republic".

Fatemeh Haghighatjou, also spelled Haghighatjoo (Persian: فاطمه حقیقت‌جو) was a reformist member of the Iranian Parliament.

After a losing struggle for reform in the parliament, her resignation was accepted as the first by several members on February 23, 2004.

In 2005 Haghighatjoo was a fellow at MIT’s Center for International Relations.[1] She is currently a fellow at Harvard University's Women and Public Policy Program.[2]

Previously, she held professorships at Tehran University and Shahid Beheshti University. Before entering politics, she was a psychologist and head of the Student Psychological Consultant Center of Iran University of Science and Technology. She is now working at The University of Connecticut in Storrs.

Haghighatjoo holds a Ph.D. in Counseling.[3]

[edit] References

  1. ^ MIT Press release: [1]
  2. ^ Harvard University link: [2]
  3. ^ Ibid.

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