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According to the Swedish Foundation, which awards the Right Livelihood Award, Nasrin Sotoudeh has been selected “for her fearless 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 released for some time.
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 today I’m going back to jail, 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.
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.
Nasrin Sotoudeh, who was also awarded the Sakharov Prize in 2012, the EU’s most famous human rights award, was sentenced to prison last year after defending women’s right to protest veiling laws.
She also has He has suffered a lot after acting in various ways for the rights of political prisoners in the country, and on other human rights issues.
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 that she fought 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 released immediately and that she be released from all charges, “he said von Uexkull in the statement.
