{{short description|Human rights female lawyer in Iran}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2025}} {{use American English|date=April 2026}} {{Infobox person | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1963}} | name = Nasrin Sotoudeh | image = Nasrin Sotoudeh.jpg | caption = | native_name = {{nobold|{{lang|fa|نسرین ستوده}}}} | native_name_lang = fa | birth_name = | birth_place = Tehran, Pahlavi Iran | occupation = Lawyer, human rights activist | education = Master's degree in International Law | alma_mater = Shahid Beheshti University | spouse = {{marriage|Reza Khandan|1995}} | children = 2, including Mehraveh Khandan | parents = <!---only where notable---> | awards = Freedom to Write Award (2011)<br>Sakharov Prize (2012)<br>Right Livelihood Award (2020) }}
'''Nasrin Sotoudeh Langarudi''' ({{langx|fa|نسرین ستوده لنگرودی}}; born 1963) is an Iranian human rights lawyer known for her defense of activists, opposition politicians, and individuals facing human rights violations. She has represented Iranian opposition activists and politicians detained after the disputed June 2009 presidential elections and prisoners sentenced to death for crimes committed when they were minors. Her clients have included journalist Isa Saharkhiz, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi, and Heshmat Tabarzadi. She has also represented women arrested for appearing in public without a hijab, which is a punishable offense in Iran. Her work has led to several arrests and periods of prison in Iran, and punishment by lashing, the latest being in April 2026, during the 2026 Iran war.
Sotoudeh was the subject of ''Nasrin'', a 2020 documentary filmed in secret in Iran about her life and work.
==Early life and education== Nasrin Sotoudeh was born in 1963 in Tehran, Iran, into a "religious, middle-class" Iranian family.<ref name="payvand">{{cite news |title=IMPRISONED – Nasrin Sotoudeh: A Mother, A Lawyer, An Activist |author=Azadeh Davachi |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120812210743/http://www.payvand.com/news/10/sep/1137.html|archive-date=12 August 2012 |url-status=live |url=http://www.payvand.com/news/10/sep/1137.html |newspaper=Payvand |date=15 September 2010 |access-date=13 January 2011}}</ref> Her father is Aghajan Sotoudeh <ref>[https://iranhr.net/fa/articles/3500/ وکلای نسرین ستوده از قاضی مقیسه شکایت کردند / اسناد]</ref> and her mother Safoura Fakhrian.<ref>[http://www.hambastegi-iran.org/spip.php?article2510 درگذشت بانو صفورا فخریان، مادر نسرین ستوده]</ref>
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.<ref name="payvand1">{{cite news |title=Nasrin Sotoudeh: The Ardent, Passionate and Dedicated Attorney at Law |author=Syma Sayyah |url=http://www.payvand.com/news/07/may/1333.html |newspaper=Payvand |date=29 May 2007 |access-date=13 January 2011 |archive-date=13 January 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130113200446/http://www.payvand.com/news/07/may/1333.html |url-status=live}}</ref> After completing her master's degree in international law from the university in 1989,<ref name=pen>{{citation|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tehranbureau/2011/04/nasrin-sotoudeh-sentenced-to-11-years-wins-freedom-to-write-award.html|title=Nasrin Sotoudeh, Sentenced to 11 Years, Wins PEN Freedom to Write Award| first1=Muhammad | last1=Sahimi | first2= Dan | last2=Geist|work=Tehran Bureau|date=13 April 2011}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Nasrin Sotoudeh – Right Livelihood Laureate |url=https://rightlivelihood.org/the-change-makers/find-a-laureate/nasrin-sotoudeh/ |website=Right Livelihood |access-date=2025-03-20}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Nasrin Sotoudeh – Honorary Doctorate from KU Leuven |url=https://www.kuleuven.be/english/about-kuleuven/honorary-doctorates/2020/nasrin-sotoudeh |website=KU Leuven |access-date=2025-03-20}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Meet Nasrin Sotoudeh – Nobel Women's Initiative |url=https://www.nobelwomensinitiative.org/meet-nasrin-sotoudeh-iran |website=Nobel Women's Initiative |access-date=2025-03-20}}</ref>
Sotoudeh took and passed the bar exam (''Kanoon Vokala'') successfully in 1995 but had to wait another eight years to be given her permit to practice law.<ref name="payvand"/>
==Work and activism== In 1991, Sotoudeh, along with some friends, began publishing the monthly magazine ''Daricheh Goftegoo'' (''Conversation Hatch''). She was the only woman on the editorial board. Those involved included religious nationalists as well as secular leftists, with opposition to the hardliners in common, and Sotoudeh oversaw the pages on social developments. However, the editor would not publish the articles she had assembled for International Women's Day in March 1991. She met her future husband, Reza Khandan, while working on the magazine.<ref name=pen/><ref name="payvand"/>
In the 1990s she wrote about the rights of political detainees and prisoners, as well as the "chain murders", with dissidents being killed throughout the decade. The more liberal Khatami presidency (1997–2005) allowed a freer press, and Soutoudeh published many articles about women's and children's rights, and other rights under the law in general. In 2000, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei accused reformist newspapers of being under foreign influence, and two of them were closed down.<ref name=pen/>
Sotoudeh worked closely with Shirin Ebadi and her Defenders of Human Rights Center, after receiving her licence to practice law in 2003.<ref name="ap"/><ref name=WP/><ref name=pen/> She started her legal career at the Iranian Ministry of Housing legal office and, after two years, joined the legal section of the state-owned Bank Tejarat. During her tenure at the bank, she was "heavily involved with preparing the legal case and the legal arguments for many of the cases that Iran presented at The Hague" in its dispute with the United States during "the Algeria court summons there".<ref name="payvand1"/>
She was an early joiner of the Campaign for One Million Signatures in 2006, dedicated to the abolition of laws that discriminate against Iranian women, and later represented some of its members, such as Nahid Keshavarz and Nasim Khosravi.<ref name=pen/> Her work has also included defending abused children and mothers and working to protect abused children from returning to their abusive fathers. She believes many abusers are ill or past victims of mistreatment and need professional care and medication. She wanted the courts to use child specialists and psychologists in verifying abuse cases to protect innocent children better.<ref name="payvand1"/> In she defended Arash Rahmanipour, who was 17 when he was arrested on charges of ''moharebeh'' (warring against God) and plotting to overthrow the regime, and executed in January 2010 at the age of 19. Sotoudeh revealed his poor treatment in prison.<ref name=pen/>
In the period just before the June 2009 presidential elections, Sotoudeh co-founded the Coalition of Women's Rights movement, bringing women's demands to the attention of the candidates.<ref name=pen/> She represented Iranian opposition activists and politicians detained after the disputed presidential elections, as well as prisoners sentenced to death for crimes committed when they were minors.<ref name="bbc">{{cite news |date=9 September 2010 |title=Iran opposition lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh detained |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-11243683 |access-date=23 October 2010 |work=BBC News}}</ref> She represented the families of Ahmad Nejati Kargar and Meysam Ebadi, killed by security forces after the 2009 election.<ref name=pen/> Her clients have included journalist Isa Saharkhiz, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi, and Heshmat Tabarzadi.<ref name=HRW /><ref name=pen/> She has also represented women arrested for appearing in public without a hijab, which is a punishable offense in Iran.<ref name=BBCsentence/> She represented activists and journalists such as Kourosh Zaim, Isa Saharkhiz, Heshmat Tabarzadi, Nahid Keshavarz, Parvin Ardalan, Omid Memarian, and Roya Tolouie, as well as child abuse and criminal cases.<ref name="Uganda" /><ref name="payvand1"/>
==Arrests and imprisonment== ===First arrest=== In June 2008, along with other female activists preparing to commemorate a national day of solidarity for Iranian women, Sotoudeh was briefly detained. She was tried in February 2009 for disturbing the public and disobeying the police, but was not sentenced.<ref name=pen/>
===Second arrest and trial=== thumb|Evin Prison On 28 August 2010, Iranian authorities raided Sotoudeh's office. At the time, Sotoudeh was representing Zahra Bahrami, a Dutch-Iranian dual citizen charged with security offenses; it was unclear whether the raid was related to Bahrami.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://vorige.nrc.nl/binnenland/article2611820.ece/Inval_bij_advocate_Bahrami_in_Teheran|title=Inval bij advocate Bahrami in Teheran|date=31 August 2010|access-date=30 January 2011|language=nl|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121114023213/http://vorige.nrc.nl/binnenland/article2611820.ece/Inval_bij_advocate_Bahrami_in_Teheran|archive-date=14 November 2012|url-status=dead|work=NRC Handelsblad}}</ref><ref>{{citation|url=http://nos.nl/audio/183225-advocaat-zahra-bahrami-opgepakt-in-teheran.html.html|title=Advocaat Zahra Bahrami opgepakt in Teheran|language=nl|archive-date=27 September 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120927051524/http://nos.nl/audio/183225-advocaat-zahra-bahrami-opgepakt-in-teheran.html.html|date=7 September 2010|access-date=30 January 2011}}</ref> The authorities had also been warning her that she would be imprisoned if she continued to represent Shirin Ebadi.<ref name=pen/>
On 4 or 5 September 2010, Iranian authorities arrested Sotoudeh on charges of spreading propaganda and conspiring to harm state security,<ref name="bbc"/> and she was imprisoned in solitary confinement in Evin Prison.<ref name="Uganda" /><ref name=pen/> ''The Washington Post'' described the arrest as "highlighting an intensifying crackdown on lawyers who defend influential opposition politicians, activists and journalists."<ref name=WP>{{cite news |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-26750613.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160312093628/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-26750613.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=12 March 2016 |title=Iran cracking down on lawyers who defend dissidents |author=Thomas Erdbrink |date=16 November 2010 |newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=26 October 2012}}</ref>
[[File:Persian Community Demonstration for Nasrin Sotoudeh The Hague 15 Dec 2012.JPG|thumb|Supporters of Nasrin Sotoudeh demonstrate in The Hague, Netherlands (2012)]]
Following Sotoudeh's arrest, Shirin Ebadi called for her release and expressed concern regarding her health. In the statement, Ebadi said, "Ms. Sotoudeh is one of the last remaining courageous human rights lawyers who has accepted all risks for defending the victims of human rights violations in Iran". Former Czech President Václav Havel and Zahra Rahnavard, the wife of opposition leader Mir-Hossein Mousavi, also called for Sotoudeh's release.<ref name="Uganda" />
Amnesty International launched an urgent call for her release, designating her a prisoner of conscience and noting that she was "at risk of torture or other ill-treatment."<ref name="amnesty">{{cite web |url=https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/mde13/087/2010/en/ |title=Iran: Demand Release of human rights lawyer, Nasrin Sotoudeh |date=9 September 2010 |publisher=Amnesty International |access-date=29 October 2010}}</ref> Sotoudeh, who was imprisoned in Evin Prison, was reportedly held in solitary confinement.<ref name="Uganda" />
On 9 January 2011, Iranian authorities sentenced Sotoudeh to 11 years in jail for "activities against national security" and "propaganda against the regime." Additionally, she was barred from practicing law and leaving the country for 20 years.<ref>{{cite news |title=Iran Sentences Human Rights Lawyer to 11 Years in Jail |author=William Yong |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/11/world/middleeast/11tehran.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=10 January 2011 |access-date=13 January 2011}}</ref> In mid-September 2011, an appeals court reduced Sotoudeh's prison sentence to six years; her ban from working as a lawyer was reduced to ten years.<ref name=G149>{{cite news |title=Iranian lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh has jail sentence reduced |author=Saeed Kamali Dehghan |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/sep/14/iran-nasrin-sotoudeh-jail-sentence |newspaper=The Guardian |date=14 September 2011 |access-date=7 August 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121105180228/http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/14/iran-nasrin-sotoudeh-jail-sentence|url-status=live |archive-date=5 November 2012}}</ref>
During her period of detention, Sotoudeh went on three hunger strikes.<ref name=pen/> * On 25 September 2010, she began a hunger strike to protest being denied visits and phone calls from her family.<ref name="Uganda">{{cite news |title=Jailed Iran Lawyer 'Gets Family Visit, Ends Hunger Strike' |newspaper=Radio Farda |date=26 October 2010 |url=https://www.rferl.org/a/Jailed_Iranian_Lawyers_Condition_Unknown_One_Month_Into_Hunger_Strike/2201862.html|archive-date=22 October 2012|url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121022224117/http://www.rferl.org/content/Jailed_Iranian_Lawyers_Condition_Unknown_One_Month_Into_Hunger_Strike/2201862.html |access-date=27 October 2010}}</ref><ref name="ap">{{cite news |title=Jailed Iranian opposition lawyer on hunger strike|agency=Associated Press |date=6 October 2010 |url=https://www.foxnews.com/world/jailed-iranian-opposition-lawyer-on-hunger-strike/|publisher=Fox News|access-date=26 October 2012|archive-date=31 October 2010|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101031154547/http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/10/06/jailed-iranian-opposition-lawyer-hunger-strike/}}</ref> According to her husband, Sotoudeh ended her hunger strike four weeks later, on 23 October.<ref name="Uganda" /> * On 17 October 2012, Sotoudeh began an indefinite hunger strike to protest new restrictions on her family visits.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/world_now/2012/10/imprisoned-lawyer-hunger-strike-iran.html |title=Imprisoned lawyer in Iran goes on hunger strike |author=Ramin Mostaghim |date=18 October 2012 |work=Los Angeles Times|archive-date=19 October 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121019193228/http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/world_now/2012/10/imprisoned-lawyer-hunger-strike-iran.html |access-date=18 October 2012}}</ref> On the 47th day of strike, her husband stated:<blockquote>Now her health condition is so drastic that I don't expect her steady until our next meeting. Dizziness, impaired vision, unsteadiness in walking and low pressure are alarming signs of deterioration, besides the extreme thinness.<ref name="irangreenvoice">{{cite web|url=http://irangreenvoice.com/|title=Irangreenvoice.com – Ăn on mỗi ngày|website=Irangreenvoice.com – Ăn on mỗi ngày}}</ref></blockquote> On 4 December 2012 Sotoudeh stopped her hunger strike after 49 days following a short visit of some parliament members at Evin prison where they acknowledged and implemented her requests on lifting her daughter's travel ban.<ref name="Kalame">{{cite web|url=https://www.kaleme.com/1391/09/14/klm-122901/|title=پس از 49 روز، نسرین ستوده بالاخره حق فرزندش را گرفت + خبر تکمیلی « سایت خبری تحلیلی کلمه|website=www.kaleme.com|access-date=18 April 2019|archive-date=17 October 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161017053137/http://www.kaleme.com/1391/09/14/klm-122901/|url-status=dead}}</ref> * On 29 August 2018, Sotoudeh began a hunger strike to protest her detention and government harassment of her family and friends.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.frontlinedefenders.org/en/case/nasrin-sotoudeh-arrested|title=Human rights defender Nasrin Sotoudeh on hunger strike|date=20 March 2021 }}</ref>
====International response==== The international community widely condemned Sotoudeh's imprisonment.<ref name=G149 /> In October 2010, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, Human Rights Watch, the International Commission of Jurists, the International Federation for Human Rights, the Iranian League for the Defence of Human Rights, the Union Internationale des Avocats and the World Organisation Against Torture joined Amnesty International in a joint statement denouncing Sotoudeh's arrest and calling for her immediate release.<ref name=HRW>{{cite web |url=https://www.hrw.org/fr/news/2010/10/01/iran-lawyers-defence-work-repaid-loss-freedom |title=Iran: Lawyers' defence work repaid with loss of freedom |date=1 October 2010 |publisher=Human Rights Watch |access-date=26 April 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121013054339/http://www.hrw.org/fr/news/2010/10/01/iran-lawyers-defence-work-repaid-loss-freedom|url-status=live |archive-date=13 October 2012}}</ref> The US condemned what it called the "unjust and harsh verdict" against Sotoudeh, and called her "a strong voice for rule of law and justice in Iran".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-246139393.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161018204657/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-246139393.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 October 2016 |title=Conviction of Human Rights Lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh |author=Philip J. Crowley |date=10 January 2011 |publisher=States News Service|access-date=26 October 2012}}</ref> On 20 December 2010, Amnesty International held a day-long protest at the Iranian embassy in London to protest her imprisonment.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-244915796.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160315031421/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-244915796.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=15 March 2016 |title=Protest for detained solicitor |date=21 December 2010 |work=The Mirror |access-date=26 October 2012}}</ref> In January 2011, the Law Society of England and Wales also issued a call for her release.<ref name=G149 />
On 26 October 2012, Sotoudeh was announced as a co-winner of the Sakharov Prize of the European Parliament. She shared the award with Iranian film director Jafar Panahi.<ref name=G2610 /> European Parliament President Martin Schulz called the pair "a woman and a man who have not been bowed by fear and intimidation and who have decided to put the fate of their country before their own".<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2012/10/26/Jailed-Iranians-win-EU-prize/UPI-71301351278456/ |title=Jailed Iranians win EU prize |work=United Press International |date=26 October 2012 |archive-date=27 October 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121027154017/http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2012/10/26/Jailed-Iranians-win-EU-prize/UPI-71301351278456/ |access-date=26 October 2012}}</ref> European Union High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton stated of the prize, "I am following the case of Nasrin Sotoudeh and other human rights defenders with great concern ... We will continue to campaign for the charges against them to be dropped. We look to Iran to respect the human rights obligations it has signed up to".<ref name=G2610>{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/oct/26/nasrin-sotoudeh-jafar-panahi-sakharov-prize |title=Nasrin Sotoudeh and director Jafar Panahi share top human rights prize |author=Saeed Kamali Dehghan |date=26 October 2012 |work=The Guardian |archive-date=30 October 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121030150823/http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/oct/26/nasrin-sotoudeh-jafar-panahi-sakharov-prize |access-date=26 October 2012}}</ref> Human rights defender and freelance journalist William Nicholas Gomes demanded Immediate and unconditional release of Sotoudeh in August 2018.<ref>{{cite news|title=Iran: Immediately and unconditionally release Ms. Nasrin Sotoudeh|publisher=News Ghana|date=30 August 2018|url=https://www.newsghana.com.gh/iran-immediately-and-unconditionally-release-ms-nasrin-sotoudeh/|access-date=31 August 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180831104305/https://www.newsghana.com.gh/iran-immediately-and-unconditionally-release-ms-nasrin-sotoudeh/|archive-date=31 August 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/Wnicholasgomes/status/1035075242803306496|title=Release|last=Gomes|first=William|date=30 August 2018|access-date=2019-08-23}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Nasrin Sotoudeh – Right Livelihood Laureate |url=https://rightlivelihood.org/the-change-makers/find-a-laureate/nasrin-sotoudeh/ |website=Right Livelihood |access-date=2025-03-20}}</ref>
==== Release ==== Sotoudeh was released on 18 September 2013 along with ten other political prisoners, including opposition leader Mohsen Aminzadeh, days before an address by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani to the United Nations.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-24151298 |title=Iran: Nasrin Sotoudeh 'among freed political prisoners' |date=18 September 2013 |work=BBC News |access-date=2 October 2013}}</ref> No explanation was given for her early release.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.amnesty.org/en/news/iran-nasrin-sotoudeh-released-2013-09-18 |title=Iran releases prominent human rights lawyer |date=18 September 2013 |publisher=Amnesty International |access-date=2 October 2013}}</ref>
===Third arrest and sentencing=== Sotoudeh was arrested again in June 2018.<ref name="Prominent Human Rights Lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh Arrested">{{Cite news|url= http://iranhr.net/en/articles/3345/ |title= Prominent Human Rights Lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh Arrested|work= Iran Human Rights |date= 13 June 2018 |access-date= 1 April 2021 }}</ref> According to her lawyer, she was charged with espionage, dissemination of propaganda and disparaging the Supreme Leader of Iran, Ali Khamenei.<ref name="Guardian">{{cite news |title=Human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh jailed 'for 38 years' in Iran|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/11/human-rights-lawyer-nasrin-sotoudeh-jailed-for-38-years-in-iran|via=The Guardian|work=Reuters in Geneva |date=11 March 2019 |access-date=11 March 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/26/no-choice-jailed-iranian-lawyer-nasrin-sotoudeh-goes-on-hunger-strike|title='No choice': jailed Iranian lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh goes on hunger strike|work=Reuters in Geneva|date=26 August 2018|via=www.theguardian.com}}</ref>
On 22 August 2018, 60 members of the European Parliament called on Iranian President Hassan Rouhani to forcefully work for Sotoudeh's "unconditional release."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://en.radiofarda.com/a/european-mps-call-for-iranian-human-rights-lawyer-s-release/29449222.html|title=European MPs Call For Iranian Human Rights Lawyer's Release|website=RFE/RL|date=23 August 2018 }}</ref>
On 6 March 2019, she was convicted in absentia, after refusing to attend the trial before Tehran's Islamic Revolutionary Court because she was unable to select her counsel. She was charged with several offenses, including being a member of a human rights organization and stoking "corruption and prostitution".<ref name="Yahoo">{{cite news |title=Iran lawyer convicted after defending women protesters |author=Jon Gambrell |url=https://news.yahoo.com/iran-lawyer-convicted-defending-women-protesters-055311364.html |publisher=Associated Press|via=Yahoo|date=6 March 2019 |access-date=6 March 2019}}</ref>
On 11 March, Judge Mohammad Moqiseh told the Islamic Republic News Agency she was sentenced to five years for endangering the country's security through assembly and two years for insulting Khamenei.<ref name="Guardian"/> Later, in January 2025, Moqiseh was assassinated by an assailant.{{cn|date=March 2026}} On 12 March 2019 she was sentenced to jail in Tehran, after being charged with several national security-related offenses. While a Tehran judge told the Islamic Republic News Agency she was imprisoned for seven years, it was reported by other sources that the maximum sentence included 10 years in prison and 148 lashes, along with six other verdicts and sentences totaling 38 years bundled together. However, the sentence was reduced later to 10 years total.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ibanet.org/Article/NewDetail.aspx?ArticleUid=b8792a2a-ef48-40c1-961f-a2dd71ff5bf6|title=IBA – IBAHRI calls for the immediate release of prominent Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh|website=www.ibanet.org}}</ref> Sotoudeh's husband, Reza Khandan, said that only the longest sentence of these would be served, which is 10 years imprisonment (for "encouraging corruption and debauchery and providing the means"), out of a total 33 years for seven charges bundled together; this was in addition to five years for another case, bringing the total to 38 years, plus 148 lashes.<ref name="France">{{cite news|publisher=France24|url=https://www.france24.com/en/20190312-iran-rights-lawyer-sotoudeh-face-additional-10-years-jail |title=Iran rights lawyer Sotoudeh to face additional 10 years in jail|date=12 March 2019|access-date=14 March 2019}}</ref><ref name="Aljazira"/><ref name=BBCsentence>{{cite news|work=BBC News|date=12 March 2019 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-47531312| title=Nasrin Sotoudeh: Iranian human rights lawyer jailed for 38 years, say family|access-date =12 March 2019}}</ref>
On 28 July 2020, Khandan reported that Sotoudeh's bank accounts had been frozen on the orders of the Prosecutor's Office despite none of the charges against her being finance related.<ref name="Nasrin Sotoudeh’s accounts frozen">{{Cite news|url= http://iranhr.net/en/articles/4353/ |title= Intensification of Pressure on Human Rights Defenders: Iran Authorities Freeze Nasrin Sotoudeh's Bank Accounts|work= Iran Human Rights |date= 28 July 2020 |access-date= 1 April 2021 }}</ref>
On 11 August 2020, Sotoudeh went on hunger strike, publishing a letter demanding the release of political prisoners, reading: "The appellate process, parole, suspending execution sentences and a new law intent on issuing minimum sentences were all promised, but the enforcement of all these legal rights are assigned to interrogators who apply them extrajudicially, closing the last door on political prisoners."<ref name="Nasrin Sotoudeh on hunger strike">{{Cite news|url= http://iranhr.net/en/articles/4381/ |title= Imprisoned Human Rights Lawyer, Nasrin Sotoudeh On Hunger Strike Demands Release of Political Prisoners|work= Iran Human Rights |date= 12 August 2020|access-date= 10 April 2021 }}</ref> Sotoudeh ended her hunger strike on September 26 due to deteriorating health.{{cn|date=March 2026}}
On 17 August 2020, her daughter, Mehraveh Khandan, was arrested at her home by security forces and released on bail later in the day. Iran Human Rights Director Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam said: "The harassment is aimed at silencing Nasrin Sotoudeh, who is defending basic human rights with her hunger strike. The international community must prevent further harassment of human rights defenders by standing with Nasrin Sotoudeh"<ref name=daughter>{{Cite news|url= http://iranhr.net/en/articles/4388/ |title= Escalation of Pressure on Families: Jailed Human Rights Lawyer, Nasrin Sotoudeh's Daughter Arrested|work= Iran Human Rights |date= 17 August 2020|access-date= 1 April 2021 }}</ref> thumb|Qarchak women's prison On 20 October 2020, Sotoudeh was transferred from Evin Prison to Qarchak Prison in Varamin.<ref>{{cite news|publisher=Center for Human Rights in Iran|url=https://iranhumanrights.org/2020/10/nasrin-sotoudeh-transferred-to-notorious-gharchak-prison/|title=Nasrin Sotoudeh Transferred to Notorious Gharchak Prison |date=20 October 2020|access-date=20 October 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|publisher=HRANA|url=https://www.hra-news.org/2020/hranews/a-27123/|title=Nasrin Sotoudeh was transferred from Evin Prison to Qarchak Prison in Varamin (translated from Persian)|date=20 October 2020|access-date=20 October 2020}}</ref>
On 7 November 2020, she was temporarily freed, having tested positive for COVID-19, then returned to Qarchak Prison on 2 December 2020.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/07/iran-temporarily-frees-human-rights-lawyer-nasrin-sotoudeh|title=Iran temporarily frees human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh|work=The Guardian|access-date=7 November 2020|date=7 November 2020}}</ref><ref name="iran_lawyers">{{cite web |url=https://iranhumanrights.org/2020/12/human-rights-lawyer-nasrin-sotoudeh-being-returned-to-gharchak-prison/ |title=Human Rights Lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh Being Returned to Gharchak Prison |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=2 December 2020 |website=Center for Human Rights in Iran |access-date=3 December 2020}}</ref>
On 9 February 2021, her husband Reza Khandan's bank accounts were also frozen. Speaking to Iran Human Rights he said: "Arresting my daughter and freezing my bank accounts are evidence that punishments have become familial, and when they want to punish an individual, they may violate their civil rights and privacy and even have them fired, freeze their bank accounts, ban them from leaving the country, in other words, use every opportunity to put pressure on that individual or their family members."<ref name="Reza Khandan’s accounts frozen">{{Cite news|url= http://iranhr.net/en/articles/4616/ |title= Reza Khandan's Accounts Frozen in Further Move to Pressure Wife, Nasrin Sotoudeh|work= Iran Human Rights |date= 9 February 2021|access-date= 10 April 2021 }}</ref>
She was released on a five-day medical furlough on 21 July 2021<ref name="furlough">{{Cite news|url= https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-sotoudeh-health-release/31371837.html |title= Iran Releases Rights Lawyer Sotoudeh For Five-Day Health Treatment Leave |work= Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty |date= 22 July 2021|access-date= 2 August 2023 }}</ref> due to a heart problem, during which she underwent an angioplasty.<ref name=deadline2023/> Her medical leave was extended.<ref>{{Cite news|url= https://iranprimer.usip.org/blog/2020/aug/12/nasrin-sotoudeh-speaks-prison |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200820134223/https://iranprimer.usip.org/blog/2020/aug/12/nasrin-sotoudeh-speaks-prison |url-status= dead |archive-date= 20 August 2020 |title= Profile: Human Rights Lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh |work= The Iran Primer |date= 1 February 2023 |access-date= 2 August 2023 }}</ref>{{fv|date=December 2024}}<ref name=MSONE>{{cite web |url= https://msmagazine.com/2024/12/22/nasrin-sotoudeh-husband-reza-khandan-evin-prison-women-iran/ |title= Nasrin Sotoudeh Speaks Out: Husband Reza Khandan Sits in Evin Prison for Supporting Women’s Freedom in Iran |last= Kaufman |first= Jeff |date= December 12, 2024 |website= MS Magazine |publisher= |access-date= July 22, 2025 |quote=}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.omct.org/en/resources/urgent-interventions/sentencing-of-ms-nasrin-sotoudeh-to-33-years-in-jail |title= Sentencing of Ms. Nasrin Sotoudeh to 33 years in jail |author=<!--Not stated--> |date= December 1, 2023 |website= World Organisation against Torture |publisher= |access-date= July 22, 2025 |quote=}}</ref>
Sotoudeh was arrested again in October 2023,<ref name=GN>{{cite web |url= https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/30/iran-arrests-top-rights-lawyer-at-funeral-of-teenage-girl-who-died-after-metro-incident |title= Iran Arrests Top Rights Lawyer at Funeral of Teenage Girl who died after Metro incident |last1= France-Presse |first1= Agence |last2= Parent |first2= Deepa |date= October 30, 2023 |website= The Guardian |publisher= |access-date= July 22, 2025 |quote=}}</ref> at the funeral of teenager Armita Geravand, who went into a coma and died after allegedly being assaulted by the Islamic religious police for not wearing a hijab.<ref name=deadline2023/> Her medical leave was suspended, <ref name=deadline2023/> but she was later released.<ref name=MSTWO /><ref name=IW />
====International response==== Before the verdict had been announced, the UN deputy high commissioner for human rights, Kate Gilmore, had been allowed to visit Sotoudeh. The visit was the first in many years by UN human rights investigators. The UN investigator on human rights in Iran, Javaid Rehman, raised Sotoudeh's case at the UN human rights council in Geneva on 11 March, saying that she had been "reportedly convicted of charges relating to her work and could face a lengthy prison sentence".<ref name="Guardian"/>
The Center for Human Rights in Iran afterward criticized her conviction and said it proved that the Iranian government was sensitive to any peaceful criticism. Hadi Ghaemi, the executive director, said that the charges, ranging from membership in a human rights group to "encouraging corruption and prostitution", suggest that her detention relates partly to her defense of women who had protested the mandatory hijab.<ref name="Yahoo"/>
Amnesty International has condemned her sentencing and stated motives for her conviction, including her backing of women who opposed the mandatory hijab laws.<ref name="Aljazira">{{cite news|publisher=Al Jazeera|date=12 March 2019 |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/03/amnesty-sentencing-iran-lawyer-sotoudeh-outrageous-190312102532646.html|title=Amnesty: Sentencing of Iran lawyer Sotoudeh 'outrageous'|access-date =12 March 2019}}</ref>
Philip Luther, Middle East and North Africa Research and Advocacy Director at Amnesty said; "Jailing a human rights defender for her peaceful activities is abhorrent but the fact that the judge in Nasrin Sotoudeh's case used his discretion to ensure that she stays locked up for more than is required under Iranian law compounds the outrageous injustice of her sentence".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2019/03/iran-shocking-33-year-prison-term-and-148-lashes-for-womens-rights-defender-nasrin-sotoudeh/|title=Iran: Shocking 33-year prison term and 148 lashes for women's rights defender Nasrin Sotoudeh|website=Amnesty International|date=11 March 2019|access-date=14 April 2019}}</ref>
In April 2019, actor and activist Nazanin Boniadi was interviewed by CBC News Network anchor Natasha Fatah about female activists in Iran, including Sotoudeh. Boniadi said that Sotoudeh should be lauded and nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, and also spoke of the bad reputation of the prison, where people were regularly tortured. She also spoke of the lack of support worldwide for the ordinary people of Iran.<ref>{{cite web|website=Twitter|url=https://twitter.com/NatashaFatah/status/1116883264596140032/video/1|title=Natasha Fatah: We speak with actor & activist @NazaninBoniadi about female activists detained in Iran, the lack of support for ordinary people, and how the world has turned away|medium=video}}</ref>
In August 2021, a group of Democratic senators introduced a resolution condemning Iran for the unjust imprisonment of Sotoudeh. Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey, who heads the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, sponsored the resolution along with eight other Senate Democrats, including Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen of Maryland.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Senators call for release of 'unjustly imprisoned' women in Iran, Turkey, Egypt, Saudi Arabia – Al-Monitor: The Pulse of the Middle East|url=https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2021/08/senators-call-release-unjustly-imprisoned-women-iran-turkey-egypt-saudi-arabia|access-date=2021-09-05|website=www.al-monitor.com|date=11 August 2021 |language=en}}</ref>
In an interview with Rouhollah Zamzameh, Nasrin Sotoudeh stated that patriarchal authoritarian systems lose their political legitimacy when women actively resist discriminatory laws and moral control. She emphasized that Iran’s Revolutionary Courts function as instruments of systematic repression rather than justice, and argued that the current judicial system is not reformable, calling instead for the establishment of a secular judiciary through a democratic referendum.<ref>{{cite web |title=A Defiant Voice in the Regime of Silence: A Woman Who Keeps the Light in Darkness |url=https://brusselsmorning.com/a-defiant-voice-in-the-regime-of-silence-a-woman-who-keeps-the-light-in-darkness/76782/ |website=Brussels Morning |author=Rouhollah Zamzameh}}</ref> ===Fourth arrest=== Sotoudeh was again arrested in 2023.<ref name=GN/> She was later released.<ref name=MSTWO /><ref name=IW />
===Fifth arrest=== On 2 April 2026, during the 2026 Iran war with the U.S. and Israel, Sotoudeh's daughter announced that her mother had been arrested again. It was not clear which branch of the security forces had taken her, but they had also removed all of her and her husband's electronic devices from their home. Iranian activists have reported that the government had been increasing their repression of civil society during this war.<ref name=ryan2026>{{cite web | last1=Ryan | first1=Brad | last2=Gould | first2=Courtney | title=Iranian Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi suffers suspected heart attack in prison, family says | website=ABC News | date=2 April 2026 | url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-03/marges-mohammadi-iranian-nobel-laureate-heart-attack/106529226 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260402155833/https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-03/marges-mohammadi-iranian-nobel-laureate-heart-attack/106529226 | archive-date=2 April 2026 | url-status=live | access-date=3 April 2026}}</ref>
==Personal life== Sotoudeh married Reza Khandan in 1994.<ref name=pen/> They have two children together,<ref name="amnesty"/> including Mehraveh Khandan.<ref name=daughter/> Sotoudeh has emphasized that Reza is "truly a modern man," standing beside her and her work during her struggles.<ref name="payvand1"/>
On 13 December 2024, Khandan was arrested for his work for women's rights in Iran,<ref name=MSTWO>{{cite web |url= https://msmagazine.com/2025/04/24/reza-khandan-nasrin-sotoudeh-jail-womens-rights-hijab-iran-evin-prison/ |title= ‘Now Reza Is the One in Prison’: Nasrin Sotoudeh on the Pain of Watching Her Husband Suffer on Behalf of Women’s Rights in Iran |last= Sotoudeh |first= Nasrin |date= April 24, 2025 |website= MS Magazine |publisher= |access-date= July 22, 2025 |quote=}}</ref> and was held in Evin Prison. The family reported that their son was beaten by officials while attempting to visit him.<ref name=IW>{{cite web |url= https://iranwire.com/en/features/140753-we-just-want-a-normal-life-nasrin-sotoudeh-on-family-life-under-irans-crackdown/ |title= 'We Just Want a Normal Life': Nasrin Sotoudeh on Family Life Under Iran's Crackdown |last= Shahrabi |first= Shima |date= April 29, 2025 |website= Iran Wire |publisher= |access-date= July 22, 2025 |quote=}}</ref> He was still being held as of April 2026.<ref name=ryan2026/>
==January 2026 public statement and arrest== On 28 January 2026, Sotoudeh, along with several other Iranian intellectuals, including Amirsalar Davoudi, Hatam Ghaderi, Abolfazl Ghadyani, Mehdi Mahmoudian, Abdollah Momeni, Mohammad Najafi, Jafar Panahi, Mohammad Rasoulof, and Sedigheh Vasmaghi, and the Narges Mohammadi Human Rights Foundation, published a statement on Instagram asserting that the 2026 Iran massacres were a crime against humanity, accusing Supreme Leader of Iran Ali Khamenei of holding principal responsibility.<ref name="IranIntl_activists_Khamenei_CAH">{{cite Q|Q137959813|url-status=live}}</ref>
On 13 April 2026, HRANA reported that human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh has been missing for 12 days following her arrest.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.iranintl.com/en/202604135027|title=Whereabouts of prominent Iranian lawyer unknown 12 days after arrest|website=Iran International|access-date=2026-04-13}}</ref>
==Recognition and awards== * 2008: International Human Rights Organization of Italy's Human Rights Prize (but barred from leaving the country to accept the honor; received by her husband on her behalf)<ref name=pen/> * 2011: PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pen.org/page.php/prmID/448 |title=PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award |publisher=PEN American Center |archive-date=21 October 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121021131500/http://pen.org/page.php/prmID/448 |access-date=26 October 2012}}</ref> * 2011: Southern Illinois University School of Law Rule of Law Citation<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-2353620261.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160309190510/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P3-2353620261.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=9 March 2016 |title=Law School Honors Iranian Human Rights Attorney |date=21 May 2011 |publisher=US Federal News Service |access-date=26 October 2012}}</ref> * 2011: Giuseppe Motta Medal<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://motta.gidd.eu.org/ |title=Giuseppe Motta Medal Website |access-date=22 August 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222040927/http://motta.gidd.eu.org/ |archive-date=22 February 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref> * 2012: Sakharov Prize of the European Parliament<ref name=G2610 /><ref name=ryan2026/> * 2018: Kurt Tucholsky Prize<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://iranintl.com/en/world/nasrin-sotoudeh-wins-2018-kurt-tucholsky-pen-award|title=Nasrin Sotoudeh Wins the 2018 Kurt Tucholsky PEN Award|date=30 October 2018|website=Iran International}}{{Dead link|date=July 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> * 2018: Ludovic-Trarieux International Human Rights Prize, an annual tribute for a lawyer (Nelson Mandela being the first recipient in 1986)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ludovictrarieux.org/uk-page3.callplt2018.htm|title=Thirty-three years after Nelson Mandela, Nasrin Sotoudeh (Iran) prizewinner of "Ludovic-Trarieux" Human Rights Prize 2018.|website=www.ludovictrarieux.org}}</ref> * 2019: Franco-German Prize for Human Rights and the Rule of Law, accepted on her behalf by fellow human rights lawyer Saeid Dehghan<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://twitter.com/franceeniran/status/1206468623298179073|title=L'avocate iranienne Nasrin Sotoudeh fait partie des lauréats de l'édition 2019 du prix franco-allemand des droits de l'homme et de l'Etat de droit. Le Prix a été remis par les ambassadeurs de France et d'Allemagne en Iran, par l'intermédiaire d'un avocat, M. Saeid Dehghan|access-date=2021-08-24|website=Twitter|language=en}}</ref> * 2019: Franz Werfel Human Rights Award<ref name=deadline2023>{{cite web | last=Goodfellow | first=Melanie | title=Filmmaker Jeff Kaufman Gives Update On Detained Iranian Human Rights Lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh | website=deadline.com | date=6 November 2023 | url=https://deadline.com/2023/11/filmmaker-jeff-kaufmann-update-detained-iranian-human-rights-lawyer-nasrin-sotoudeh-1235594904/| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250720155819/https://deadline.com/2023/11/filmmaker-jeff-kaufmann-update-detained-iranian-human-rights-lawyer-nasrin-sotoudeh-1235594904/ | archive-date=20 July 2025 | url-status=dead | access-date=3 April 2026}}</ref> * 2019: Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe Human Rights Award<ref> [https://en.radiofarda.com/a/jailed-iranian-lawyers-win-human-rights-award/30297336.html Jailed Iranian Lawyers Win Human Rights Award]</ref> * 2020: Human Rights Prize of the German Judges Association<ref>{{Cite web |last=German Judges Association |date=2 September 2020| title=Sotoudeh Gets Human Rights Prize of German Judges Association |url=https://www.drb.de/newsroom/presse-mediencenter/pressemeldungen-auf-einen-blick/pressemeldung/news/sotoudeh-gets-human-rights-prize-of-german-judges-association |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200904124020/https://www.drb.de/newsroom/presse-mediencenter/pressemeldungen-auf-einen-blick/pressemeldung/news/sotoudeh-gets-human-rights-prize-of-german-judges-association |archive-date=4 September 2020 |access-date=2023-12-14 |website=German Association of Judges}}{{cbignore}}</ref> * 2020: Right Livelihood Award<ref name=ryan2026/><ref>{{cite interview | last=McBeth | first= Adam |interviewer-last= Azzinnari |interviewer-first= Nayla | title=Behind the scenes: How does Right Livelihood vet nominees? | website=Right Livelihood | date=2021-08-03 | url=https://rightlivelihood.org/news/interview-with-adam-mcbeth-research-manager-of-right-livelihood-foundation/ | access-date=2026-04-06}}</ref> * 2020: Keys to the City of Florence<ref>{{Cite news|last=Nove Firenze|date=23 September 2020|title=Nel mese di ottobre le chiavi della città a Nasrin Sotoudeh|url=https://www.nove.firenze.it/nel-mese-di-ottobre-le-chiavi-della-citta-a-nasrin-sotoudeh.htm|access-date=2020-09-23}}</ref> * 2020: Listed on the BBC's 100 Women list<ref>{{Cite news|date=23 November 2020|title=BBC 100 Women 2020: Who is on the list this year?|language=en-GB|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-55042935|access-date=2020-11-23}}</ref> * 2021: Named as one of ''Time'''s 100 Most Influential People in the World<ref>{{Cite magazine|title=Nasrin Sotoudeh: The 100 Most Influential People of 2021|url=https://time.com/collection/100-most-influential-people-2021/6096096/nasrin-sotoudeh/|access-date=2021-09-18|magazine=Time|language=en}}</ref> * 2023: Heroine Award from the Alice Schwarzer Foundation in Germany, received by Sotoudeh's friend Mansoureh Shojaee on her behalf<ref>{{cite web | title=Heroine Award 2023 for Nasrin Sotoudeh | website=IRWMM | date=16 November 2023 | url=https://www.irwmm.org/en/heroine-award-2023-for-nasrin-sotoudeh/ | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20251216181835/https://www.irwmm.org/en/heroine-award-2023-for-nasrin-sotoudeh/ | archive-date=16 December 2025 | url-status=live | access-date=3 April 2026}}</ref><ref name=kaufman/> * 2023: Named Global Human Rights Defender by the U.S. State Department<ref name=kaufman>{{cite web | last=Kaufman | first=Jeff | title=Human Rights Advocate Nasrin Sotoudeh on Activism in the U.S. and Iran: 'Democratic Resistance and Belief in Civil Society Always Pays Off' | website=Ms. Magazine | date=26 December 2023 | url=https://msmagazine.com/2023/12/26/nasrin-sotoudeh-released-prison-iran-us-womens-rights/ | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20251213131740/https://msmagazine.com/2023/12/26/nasrin-sotoudeh-released-prison-iran-us-womens-rights/ | archive-date=13 December 2025 | url-status=live | access-date=3 April 2026}}</ref> * 2023: Civil Courage Prize from the Train Foundation (U.S.)<ref name=kaufman/> * 2023: Brown Democracy Medal from Pennsylvania State University<ref name=kaufman/>
==Film appearances== Sotoudeh makes an appearance in filmmaker Jafar Panahi's 2015 film ''Taxi'', when she sits in Panahi's car on her way to visit an imprisoned client.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/nov/01/taxi-tehran-review-admirable-jafar-panahi-takes-to-the-streets|title=Taxi Tehran review – Jafar Panahi's joy ride|last=Romney|first=Jonathan|date=1 November 2015|website=The Guardian|access-date=3 April 2026}}</ref>
She was the subject of a 2020 documentary film, ''Nasrin'', filmed in secret in Iran about her ongoing activism and her professional and personal life leading up to her second arrest in 2018.<ref>{{cite news |title='Nasrin' Review: Righting Wrongs in Iran |work=NYT |date=17 December 2020 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/17/movies/nasrin-review.html |access-date=22 December 2020 |last1=Catsoulis |first1=Jeannette }}</ref> Advised by Sotoudeh's husband, ''Nasrin'' was made by American filmmakers Jeff Kaufman and his wife Marcia Ross, and narrated by Olivia Colman.<ref name=deadline2023/>
== See also == * Women's rights in Iran *List of Iranian women activists
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