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Jailed Iranian lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh
JAILED Iranian lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh made a call for peace from her cell in Tehran’s Evin prison for International Women’s Day today.
Ms Sotoudeh, a human rights lawyer who was sentenced to 33 years in prison and 148 lashes in 2018 for “national security offences” and “promoting immorality and indecency” after a career representing opposition activists and death row inmates, said “violations of women’s rights are systemic” in Iran.
Among her fellow prisoners — 40 women crowded into a three-room ward — are women who were arrested for handing out flowers and starting conversations about women’s rights on Tehran’s metro system last International Women’s Day.
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