Nasrin Sotoudeh, Iranian Rights Lawyer, Home Temporarily: 'We Are Hoping for a Better Future That Can Protect Us'

Unsurprisingly, she quickly caught a severe case of COVID-19. She was briefly released in January for an overdue angioplasty, but on the day she was abruptly forced to return to prison, she was also informed the authorities had frozen her family’s bank accounts.

Clockwise from top left: Amir Soltani, Jeff Kaufman, Marcia Ross, Nasrin Sotoudeh and Reza Khandan during an hour-long Zoom chat on July 25. “It’s very difficult to be there,” she continued, “but I carry a sense of beauty that is very sustaining from making new friends and having an opportunity to continue my work. For instance, an hour before leaving I was advising a particular prisoner about her legal case. I can help these women appeal for their rights and freedom. That is deeply rewarding.”

Mohammad Reza Ali Payam, a 64-year-old poet and satirist known to his readers as Haloo, had hosted Nasrin at a 2013 poetry reading. In 2015 he was arrested, beaten and imprisoned for “propaganda against the regime,” “insulting sanctities” and “insulting the founder of the Islamic Republic and government officials.”

Good for her!

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