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• Iran: Unexplained transfer of Nasrin Sotoudeh to Qarchak prison

  Paris-Geneva, October 20, 2020 – Prominent human rights defender Nasrin Sotoudeh has been transferred today to Qarchak prison without any explanation. The Observatory (FIDH-OMCT) and the League for the Defence of Human Rights in Iran (LDDHI) reiterate their call on the Iranian authorities to immediately release her.
  While the guards of the women’s dormitory ward at Tehran’s Evin prison told her that she was going to be sent to the hospital, Nasrin Sotoudeh was transferred from Evin prison to (...)

• Nasrin Sotoudeh: Grave Deterioration in Health, Exposed to COVID-19 at Hospital

  Doctors: Her Return to Prison Was “A deliberate attempt to put her life in danger”
  Family’s Repeated Requests for Medical Furlough and Hospitalization Denied
  October 13, 2020 — New information regarding the severe deterioration in the health of imprisoned human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh emerged today, as her husband, Reza Khandan, relayed her “grave cardiac and pulmonary problems” that were due to delays in medical treatment, and her exposure to COVID-19 during her recent brief (...)

• Imprisoned Human Rights Attorney Refuses Food to Demand Release of Prisoners Endangered by COVID-19

  Husband: “Nasrin has become extremely weak”
  August 31, 2020—The health of imprisoned human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh has become critically threatened by a hunger strike she began on August 11, 2020 to call for the release of political prisoners severely endangered by the rapid spread of COVID-19 in Iran’s overcrowded prisons.
  “Nasrin Sotoudeh is risking death in order to break through the Iranian authorities’ refusal to release political prisoners who are falling ill from the COVID-19 virus (...)

• The statement of the International Organisation to Preserve Human Rights (IOPHR) in connection with the general strike of the Iranian people.

  The statement of the International Organisation to Preserve Human Rights (IOPHR) in connection with the general strike of the Iranian people.
  Industrial Strike is Not a Crime:
  For striking is the legal right of all citizens!
  More than two months have passed since the beginning of the nationwide strike of the oppressed workers and employees of Haft Tappeh Sugarcane Cultivation Industrial Company. The strikers’ demand is nothing more than their legal right: to be paid all their overdue (...)

• Arrest of Mehraveh Khandan Aimed at Forcing Sotoudeh to End Her Hunger Strike in Prison

  August 18, 2020—Mehraveh Khandan, the 20-year-old daughter of imprisoned human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, was arrested at her home in Tehran on August 17, 2020, and detained in order to force her mother to end her hunger strike in Evin Prison, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) has learned.
  She was arrested without prior notice on specious charges of “insult and assault” and subsequently released on bail.
  “The Iranian authorities haven’t been able to silence Nasrin Sotoudeh nor end (...)

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