Democratization 02?

There are now pictures of women among the demonstrators in Egypt and I find myself thinking of Iran where Ms. Zahra Bahrami, 45, who was arrested for committing security crimes after participating in the 2009 protests against the re-election of the President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, was hanged on Saturday on drug trafficking charges. It is not that I do not think that Egypt can democratize. It is that I am afraid that it will not and that among the bearers of higher human rights violation costs will be women.