Nasrin Sotoudeh
Age: 60
Activism/rights: Human rights lawyer
Status: Released on bail
Judicial status: 38 years imprisonment and 148 lashes
Violations: Judicial harassment, arbitrary arrest and detention, prolonged solitary confinement, lack of due process, unfair trial, denial of medical care, access to lawyer, familial punishment
Nasrin Sotoudeh is a lawyer, human rights activist, member of the Iranian Human Rights Defenders Association and an activist against the death penalty. She has represented many political and minority cases. She is also the recipient of, amongst others, the Sakharov Prize. She was previously jailed from August 2010 to September 2013 for her professional and human rights activities. Since her most recent arrest on 13 June 2018, she was sentenced to five years in prison in absentia on the charge of “concealing a spy.” In a separate case of seven different charges, she was sentenced to a total of 38 years imprisonment and 148 lashes. She will have to serve the longest, a 12 year sentence according to Article 134 of the IPC. Nasrin has faced pressure through the arrest of her daughter and the freezing of both her bank accounts. and those of her husband, Reza Khandan. Nasrin went on medical furlough from 23 July 2021 until she was violently arrested at Armita Garavand’s funeral in Tehran after she tried to stop security forces from physically assaulting a justice-seeking mother on 29 October 2023. She was released on bail on 15 November.