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Photo: Arash Ashourinia / AP / TT
Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh in a 2008 photo.
Iranian human rights lawyer and activist Nasrin Sotoudeh has been sent back to prison. It takes place the day before the distribution of this year’s Right Livelihood Award, of which she is one of four winners.
According to the Swedish Foundation, which awards the Right Livelihood Prize, Nasrin Sotoudeh has been selected “for her courageous fight, despite great personal risks, to promote political freedom and human rights in Iran.”
Sotoudeh, 57, has long been a nail in the eye of the Tehran regime and is now sentenced to twelve years in prison, but has been free since 7 November.
Now, however, the prison doors are collapsing behind her again, and in a Facebook post she wrote on Wednesday, under the headline “Friends and human rights activists”:
“They told me to go back to jail and I’m going back to jail today, where I left my heart and hundreds of fellow prisoners. That is always the case.”
“That I was unable to hug my children for these three weeks due to crown disease is not something I want to talk about in such a situation,” Sotoudeh writes.
Sick of covid-19
He also calls on everyone to pay attention to the situation of the Swedish-Iranian doctor and researcher Ahmadreza Djalali. He has been sentenced to death in Iran for espionage.
The activist’s husband, Reza Khandan, says he tested positive for COVID-19 a few days after being released from jail.
Reza Khandan confirms to the AFP news agency that his wife was forced back to prison on Wednesday.
Encouraged “immorality”
Sotoudeh, who in 2012 received the Sakharov Prize, the EU’s most famous human rights award, was sentenced to prison last year for “fomenting corruption and immorality” after defending the right of women to protest against the laws. on wearing the veil.
She has also been accused, among other things, of espionage.
He has also suffered greatly after acting in various ways for the rights of political prisoners in the country and on other human rights issues.
The foundation condemns
Sotoudeh and three other activists receive this year’s Right Livelihood Award. Chancellor Ann Linde (SocDem), among others, will participate in the award ceremony in Stockholm on Thursday.
Ole von Uexkull, who heads the Right Livelihood Foundation, wrote in a statement to TT condemning the decision of the Iranian authorities to return Sotoudeh to prison after she was recently released on medical grounds.
“Her only alleged crime is fighting for human rights and the rule of law in Iran. Sotoudeh should never have been imprisoned and the Right Livelihood Foundation demands that Sotoudeh be immediately released and acquitted of all charges,” von Uexkull said. it’s a statement.
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