What Do You Think?

[janetyu]

It is to bad that we can not ask more probing questions.

Like how does ones skin get darker indoors in solitary confinement (think about that one for a little while)

or

How exactly is representing anyone in court regardless if they are opposition figures or an Iranian Nobel laureate (Shirin Ebadi)

or

Are we sure it is a hunger strike or fear of being poisoned or simply a way to not have to worry about a trial and remove blame from the government?




copied from:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-11699603


5 November 2010

Jailed Iranian lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh on hunger strike

A prominent Iranian human rights lawyer is in a serious condition after going on hunger strike in prison, a New York-based Iranian rights group says.

The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran (ICHRI) called on the United Nations to intervene in the case of Nasrin Sotoudeh.

Ms Sotoudeh was arrested in September and is accused of acting against national security.

She has been refusing food since Sunday in protest against her treatment.

ICHRI spokesperson Hadi Ghaemi quoted Ms Sotoudeh's husband, Reza Khandan, as saying she has lost a lot of weight since being detained in Tehran's Evin prison, and that her skin has darkened.

Mr Ghaemi said she had only been able to see her two young children on Thursday for the first time since her arrest.

He urged UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navanethem Pillay to take up the matter with the Iranian authorities immediately.

Mr Ghaemi also said the Iranian authorities had denied her contact with her lawyer and had held Ms Sotoudeh in solitary confinement.

Her trial is due to start on 15 November.

Ms Sotoudeh has represented Iranian opposition activists and politicians, as well as Iranian Nobel peace prize laureate Shirin Ebadi.

[janetyu]

An earler story of this case.

copied from:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-11243683


9 September 2010

Iran opposition lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh detained

A prominent human rights lawyer in Iran, Nasrin Sotoudeh, has been detained by the authorities.

She is accused of spreading propaganda and conspiring to harm state security, her lawyer has said.

Ms Sotoudeh has represented Iranian opposition activists and politicians, and prisoners sentenced to death for crimes committed when they were under the age of 18.

There has been no comment from the Iranian authorities on the case.

Her lawyer, Mina Jafari, said she had been summoned to Tehran's Evin prison on Saturday and was being held in solitary confinement.

There has been no comment from the Iranian authorities on the case.

Hundreds of opposition activists have been arrested since the disputed presidential election in June 2009. More than 80 have been sentenced to prison terms under security laws.

Iran has come under heavy criticism internationally over the case of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery. The stoning sentence, reports say, has been halted. She now stands accused of murder and may still be executed.