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Sakharov Prize-winner Sotoudeh’s Detention Highlights Denial of Basic Rights

    Political Prisoners Denied Visits, Care (Paris, London, New York, October 31, 2012) Iran’s judiciary and prison authorities should end mistreatment of the prominent rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, Nobel peace laureate Shirin Ebadi and six human rights organizations said today. Ebadi and the rights groups also called on Iran’s authorities to allow all prisoners […]

Nobel Women’s Initiative highlights prison case of Iran attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh

  (WNN) Iran: 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.