IRAN: Activist and documentary filmmaker seized; reasons undisclosed
Los Angeles Times / Roula Hajjar, Ramin Mostaghim
28-Jun-2011

Renowned filmmaker Mahnaz Mohammadi was taken from her Tehran home  Sunday by unidentified security forces for "unknown" reasons, reported the Iranian opposition website Kaleme.

According to the website of former premier Mir-Hossein Mousavi, the prominent women's rights activist may have been seized by intelligence services of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards.

Her arrest, the second in three years, has not been reported by Iranian state media.

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