several participants in the peaceful gathering of women’s rights defenders on 12 june 2006 in hafte tir square, which ended with police violence and brutality and the arrest of 70 people, have been tried and sentenced. they include delaram ali, fariba davoodi mohajer, noushin ahmadi khorasani, parvin ardalan, shahla entesari, sussan tahmasebi, azadeh forghani, bahareh hedayat. , maryam zia, nasim soltan beigi, and alieh eghdam doost had yet to be sentenced. in an interview, prominent lawyer and nobel laureate shirin ebadi called charges against the women baseless. the sentences include jail terms, some of them suspended, and also various numbers of lashes. nahid siamdoust, writing in the "new york times", referred to the campaign as having been "crushed".