Nasrin Sotoudeh is an
Iranian human rights lawyer who defended political activists, opposition
members, and juvenile suspects on death row. She was jailed
in September 2010 on bogus charges of working against Iran’s national security
and spreading propaganda against the regime. She was sentenced to 6 years in
prison and prohibited from being a lawyer for 10 years. The government of Iran
has a lengthy record of jailing, exiling, and silencing human
rights lawyers.
Nasrin went on a hunger
strike on October 17 to protest
her prison conditions and the travel ban the Iranian government imposed on her
family. She ended
her hunger strike on December 4 after the Iranian government lifted the travel
ban on her 12-year-old daughter. Nasrin Sotoudeh has been in prison for 2 years
and 2 months.
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