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Sotoudeh: Acid Attacks on Women Show “Plan to Promote Virtue” Must Stop

  Following a spate of violent attacks on women in Iran, in which unidentified perpetrators have thrown acid in the faces of women in the city of Isfahan for their alleged improper hijab (the Islamic dress code for women), prominent human rights defender Nasrin Sotoudeh told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that […]

Hanover, Paris, Stockholm, Granada – Freedom for Nasrin and Dervishes

  Last Sunday evening, 21April, members of the International Organization to Preserve Human Rights in Iran met at the main station in Hanover, playing music on a Persian frame drum Daf along with violin and loudly demanded the release of Nasrin Sotoudeh and the dervishes internet personnel and laywers, imprisoned in Evin prison in Tehran, […]

Nasrin Sotoudeh’s Eyesight Is Deteriorating in Prison

  Human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh’s eyesight is deteriorating in prison, but she has not been granted any leave to visit an ophthalmologist, her husband Reza Khandan told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. “Each time I see her, she is using eyeglasses that are thicker than the last time. So far, no […]

Incarcerated Human Rights Lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh Attends Private Funeral Services for Her Late Mother

            Despite efforts by Nasrin Sotoudeh’s family members to hold a public funeral service for Nasrin’s late mother at one of the mosques in Tehran, judicial and security authorities prevented such public services from taking place and Sotoudeh was instead allowed to attend a private funeral ceremony alongside her family […]

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