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Pressure on Incarcerated Lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh & Her Family Increases | Her Sister Giti Now Denied All Visitation Rights

  The pressure by prison authorities and security officials on Nasrin Sotoudeh, incarcerated human rights lawyer and her family is mounting on a daily basis. A few weeks ago, her husband, two children and sister were detained for several hours when arriving for their customary visitation, an act that has resulted in Sotoudeh boycotting all […]

Pressure on Sotoudeh Continues: In-Person Visits With Children Prevented

  “This week, while we were having our booth visit and before we found out they were not going to allow the children to have an in-person visit, Nasrin was observing our young son’s acting up. She knew the reason for this, that Nima suffers in the atmosphere of booth visits. She said then: ‘if […]

A Candid Discussion With Prominent Iranian Human Rights Lawyer Mohmmad Dadkhah On the Harsh 9 Year Prison Sentence Rendered Against Him

  July 4th, 2011 – [Jaras-Farzaneh Barzpour] – Mohammad Dadkhah, prominent Iranian Lawyer and spokesperson for the Defenders of Human Rights Center in Iran has received one of the harshest sentences rendered by the judiciary in Iran. Dadkhah has been sentenced to 9 years in prison, banned for 10 years from practicing the law and […]

Nasrin Sotoudeh’s Letter to the Head of the Judiciary: “Your Judge Proved that Iranian Women Cannot Be Ignored!”

July 2nd 2011 – The Feminist School : Nasrin Sotoudeh , lawyer, human rights and women’s rights activist has addressed a letter to the head of Iran’s judiciary. Inspired by Paulo Coelho, Sotoudeh provides a beautiful narrative of the events that occurred after the presidential elections of June 2009. 

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