TEHRAN, Iran — Iranian award-winning human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh was arrested on Wednesday, her husband says 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 writes.
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.'”
Sotoudeh won the European Parliament’s prestigious Sakharov rights award in 2012 for her work on high-profile rights and political cases, including juveniles facing the death penalty in the Islamic Republic.
— AFP
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