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Islamic Republic of Iran: Lawyer who defended anti-hijab protesters arrested, taken to prison called “hell on earth”
One would think that Western feminists would be speaking up for Nasrin Sotoudeh, but that would be “Islamophobic.”
“Human rights lawyer is arrested and taken to Iran’s notorious Evin prison known as ‘hell on earth’ after defending anti-hijab protesters,” by George Martin, Mailonline, June 13, 2018 (thanks to the Geller Report):
Iran’s award-winning human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh was arrested on Wednesday, her husband said in a Facebook post.‘A few hours ago Nasrin was arrested at home and transferred to Evin,’ Tehran’s notorious prison where many political prisoners are held, her husband Reza Khandan wrote.Sotoudeh, 55, one of the few outspoken advocates for human rights in Iran, recently represented several women arrested for protesting against the mandatory wearing of headscarves.Tehran police said in February that 29 women had been detained for posing in public without their headscarves in the previous weeks.Khandan’s Facebook message was defiant, saying: ‘I once told interrogators in the interrogating room: “Of all the things the authorities should do for their country, you only know one and that is arresting people.”‘…
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