Iran: The Cases That Made Iran Target Human Rights Lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh

June 14, 2018

By arresting Iran’s top human rights lawyer, Nasrin Sotoudeh, powerful Iranian hard-liners are aiming to silence the most prominent voice for the voiceless in the Islamic republic.

​Sotoudeh’s husband, Reza Khandan, has saidthat she was rearrested at her home on June 13 to serve a five-year prison sentence on unknown charges. He said she didn’t know anything about the sentence.

The London-based human rights group Amnesty International condemned her latest detention, calling it an “outrageous attack on a brave and prolific human rights defender.”

The United States said it was “deeply concerned” by reports of Sotoudeh’s rearrest.

“First arrested in 2010, Ms. Sotoudeh has spent the past several years harassed by the Iranian regime and has been routinely placed behind bars for daring to defend the rights of those in Iran,” spokeswoman Heather Nauert said in a statement. “We applaud Ms. Sotoudeh’s bravery and her fight for the long-suffering victims of the regime. We call on Iranian authorities to release her immediately, along with the hundreds of others who are currently imprisoned simply for expressing their views and desires for a better life.”

 

Sotoudeh, 55, has been among a handful of rights advocates and activists who have stood up against state repression and highlighted human rights abuses in the country.

In 2010, Sotoudeh was sentenced to six years in prison — reduced from an initial 11-year sentence — and a 10-year ban on practicing law for several charges, including acting against Iran’s national security.

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#FreeNasrin

#FreeNasrinSotoudeh

بسیاری از کاربران نیز با بازنشر ویدیوی از نسرین ستوده که با جعفر پناهی در مورد شگردهای حاکمیت در سرکوب فعالان حرف می‌زند، به بازداشت او اعتراض کرده‌اند.
Sara Saei@sar2n
I simply adore Nasrin Sotoudeh.
For me, she is… https://t.co/n1owCrVyGy

— Ebi Tarkeshi 🎻 (@EbiTarkeshi) June 15, 2018

We are extremely concerned to hear of the arrest of and conviction (in absentia) with a 5-yr prison term for PEN America's 2011 #FreedomToWrite awardee Nasrin Sotoudeh, and call for her immediate release. News via @RFERL: https://t.co/0wp0FfNiEM

— PEN America (@PENamerican) June 14, 2018

Can't find this w English subtitles but this is #NasrinSotoudeh 's full scene in #TehranTaxi. Mentions woman being arrested for trying to watch a volleyball game in #Iran. Soutoudeh is arrested on the eve of the Iran-Morocco #WorldCup2018 game. 😟https://t.co/mBA0UsghfU

— dparvaz (@dparvaz) June 14, 2018

Tehran's arrest of Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh "highlights the government’s intolerance of dissent and its use of the judicial system to punish critics," says @DokhiFassihian of @freedomhouse. https://t.co/AVV5LWNYpJ

— Tzvi Kahn (@TzviKahn) June 14, 2018

Agée de 55 ans, l’avocate Nasrin Sotoudeh, célébre pour son combat contre les violations des droits de l’homme en Iran, a été arrêtée mercredi 13/06 à Téhéran.
Récemment,elle avait pris la défense de plusieurs femmes arrêtées pour avoir enlevé leur voile en public.#FreeNasrinNow pic.twitter.com/hs5IAUu3Ut

— Ungawa TV (@UngawaTV) June 14, 2018

Svenska_Pen protesterar mot #NasrinSotoudeh´s arrestering och kräver omedelbart hennes frigivning!
پن سوئد در نامه ای به رییس جمهور ایران و ریس قوه قضایی به دستگیرى #نسرین_ستوده اعتراض کرده و خواهان ازادی بدون قید و شرط او شده است https://t.co/j3dNVloBbK

— Farshid Faryabi 🇮🇷 in 🇸🇪 (@Farshid_Faryabi) June 14, 2018

Amnesty International: The arrest of Nasrin Sotoudeh, a prominent Iranian human rights lawyer, is an outrageous attack on a brave and prolific human rights defender. pic.twitter.com/V0noftwYpQ

— Amad News Daily (@AmadNewsDaily) June 14, 2018

Prominent #humanrights lawyer #NasrinSotoudeh was taken from her home in #Iran and sentenced to 5-years in prison. Her husband said: “I have no idea what the sentence was related to." Call on president @HassanRouhani to free her pic.twitter.com/uqgjGSwxwZ

— @ObservatoryIHR (@observatoryihr) June 15, 2018

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