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Iranian human rights attorney launches hunger strike from prison
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleIranian human rights attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh has launched a hunger strike from her prison sell.
In an announcement posted on her husband’s Facebook account, Sotoudeh says she is carrying out the protest due to the recent crackdown against civil rights activists by Iranian security services.
The human rights activist was sent to prison in 2010 for spreading propaganda and conspiring to harm the state — charges she has flatly denied. She served three years of a six-year sentence before being released in 2013 due to US pressure.
She was rearrested in June.
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