Nasrin Sotoudeh Criticizes Prison Conditions as She Enters Her Sixth Year of Imprisonment: Even Giving Me Books is Forbidden
As Nasrin Sotoudeh, a human rights activist imprisoned in Iran, begins her sixth year of incarceration, she has announced in a letter that even providing her with books in prison is prohibited.
Nasrin Sotoudeh, a human rights activist imprisoned in Iran, wrote a letter on the occasion of the start of her sixth year of imprisonment, stating that she is spending this period alongside individuals who are “victims of poverty, corruption, despotism, and patriarchal law,” and has “taken up the cause for the realization of their rights.”
The letter was published on the channel of Taghi Rahmani, Sotoudeh’s husband. Nasrin Sotoudeh continued by stating that according to orders from judicial and security officials, even providing her with books is prohibited, and added that her birthday gift this year is “sitting knee to knee, looking eye to eye, and hearing the voices of colorless victims whose fate has brought pain to my bones.”
Previously, Sotoudeh criticized in a letter to the Tehran prosecutor in December 2018 the issuance of a judicial order regarding the reduction of her phone contact time with her children, and announced that in protest, she would refrain from calling her children.
Nasrin Sotoudeh, vice president and spokesperson of the Human Rights Defenders Center and imprisoned civil activist, who was recently transferred from Evin Prison to Zanjan Prison along with beatings, now faces new charges in two separate cases.
Previously, Nasrin Sotoudeh, who has been imprisoned since mid-May 2015, was forcibly transferred from Evin Prison to Zanjan Prison after a sit-in along with seven other female prisoners in protest of the November massacre.
In this regard, Amnesty International, coinciding with the beginning of the sixth year of this human rights activist’s detention, has called for her immediate and unconditional release.
Previously, the United States representative in the periodic session reviewing the human rights situation in Iran, held with the presence of representatives from 32 other countries, called for the release of prisoners of conscience, including Nasrin Sotoudeh and Nasrin Sotoudeh from prison.
Source: Voice of America
