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Mar 19, 2024 · Activists attend the birthday party of then-jailed Nasrin Sotoudeh, outside the embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran on May 31, 2019, in The Hague, Netherlands. (Pierre Crom / Getty Images) Spillar : Nasrin, can you tell us more about why the Armita story really matters?
Nasrin Sotoudeh was born in 1963 in a "religious, middle-class" Iranian family. She had hoped to study philosophy in college and ranked 53rd in the Iranian national university entrance exam but lacked high enough marks to get a place and ended up studying law at Shahid Beheshti University in Tehran. [13]
Dec 17, 2020 · The birthday party organized by Amnesty International is a protest for her release. (Photo by Pierre Crom/Getty Images) Getty Images. Sotoudeh’s personal life also comes into focus in...
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2023 Brown Democracy Medal recipient Nasrin Sotoudeh arrested in Iran | Penn State University. Nasrin Sotoudeh, an Iranian lawyer and human rights activist, was arrested in Tehran on Sunday, just days after receiving the 2023 Brown Democracy Medal from the McCourtney Institute for Democracy.
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May 30, 2023 · Today, we celebrate Nasrin Sotoudeh’s birthday. Known as the “Mandela of Iran,” Nasrin is a leading human rights lawyer who has represented women’s rights defenders, children on death row, journalists, religious and ethnic minorities, lawyers, and other political prisoners in Iran.
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August 2020. August 18, 2020—Mehraveh Khandan, the 20-year-old daughter of imprisoned human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, was arrested at her home in Tehran on August 17, 2020, and detained in order to force her mother to end her hunger strike in Evin Prison, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) has learned.
Oct 6, 2023 · Nasrin Sotoudeh is an Iranian human rights lawyer. She has fought for the rights of women, children, religious minorities, journalists and artists, and those facing the death penalty.