Nobel Women’s Initiative highlights prison case of Iran attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh
14:38 - 12 December 2011
Kurdpa - For the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence Campaign the Nobel Women’s Initiative highlighted the plight of Iranian lawyer and human rights advocate Nasrin Sotoudeh who still remains under incarceration in spite of international campaigns for her release.
Sotoudeh has also suffered from a number of prolonged hunger strikes while incarcerated at Evin Prison in Tehran, Iran. As a human rights attorney, Sotoudeh has defended women activists with the One Million Signatures Campaign Iran, as well as Iranian journalists and democracy (green) activists inside the country. Nasrin has also acted as defense attorney for juveniles facing the death penalty as well as defending prisoners of conscience inside Iran. She also defended numerous internationally well known human rights campaigners including Nobel Peace Prize Laureate – Shirin Ebadi.
Sotoudeh was arrested under the charge of spreading propaganda and conspiring to harm state security on 4 September, 2010. Today she is serving a six years detention sentence with a ten year probation that prohibits her from practicing law in Iran.
Sotoudeh has also suffered from a number of prolonged hunger strikes while incarcerated at Evin Prison in Tehran, Iran. As a human rights attorney, Sotoudeh has defended women activists with the One Million Signatures Campaign Iran, as well as Iranian journalists and democracy (green) activists inside the country. Nasrin has also acted as defense attorney for juveniles facing the death penalty as well as defending prisoners of conscience inside Iran. She also defended numerous internationally well known human rights campaigners including Nobel Peace Prize Laureate – Shirin Ebadi.
Sotoudeh was arrested under the charge of spreading propaganda and conspiring to harm state security on 4 September, 2010. Today she is serving a six years detention sentence with a ten year probation that prohibits her from practicing law in Iran.
