{"id":1659,"date":"2020-09-09T13:19:54","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T13:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/?p=1659"},"modified":"2022-07-06T13:42:35","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T13:42:35","slug":"celebrated-artists-and-authors-join-online-campaign-to-free-imprisoned-lawyer-nasrin-sotoudeh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iransos.com\/en\/?p=1659","title":{"rendered":"Celebrated Artists and Authors Join Online Campaign to Free Imprisoned Lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Urgent Call for International Show of Solidarity to #FreeNasrin as Lawyer Begins Fifth Week of Hunger Strike <\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

September 9, 2020\u2014Prominent global artists and authors have united in an impassioned call to free the renowned human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, who is imprisoned in Iran for her defense of civil and political liberties.Joining the campaign to free Sotoudeh and the many other political prisoners in Iran are Olivia Colman, J.K. Simmons, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Juliet Stevenson, Nazanin Boniadi, Shirin Neshat, Nina Ansary, Azar Nafisi, Maz Jobrani and Simon Rix.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe call on people across the world to join us in this grassroots online protest to #FreeNasrin and post their pictures of solidarity on their social media platforms,\u201d the group said in a joint statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m proud to stand with Nasrin and call for her release as she risks everything to stand for dignity and justice in Iran,\u201d added the Oscar-winning actress Colman, who narrated the upcoming documentary,\u00a0Nasrin,\u00a0<\/em>about the prominent human rights attorney.<\/p>\n

\u201cNasrin Sotoudeh has sacrificed her freedom and years without her husband and two children to defend the human rights of others. We must all join together to demand her release,\u201d said Hadi Ghaemi, executive director of the New York-based Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI).<\/p>\n

Nasrin, who is currently serving a 38-year sentence at Iran\u2019s notorious Evan Prison for her work as a human rights attorney, is currently into the fourth week of a\u00a0hunger strike<\/a>\u00a0to call attention to political prisoners in Iran who are not only behind bars unjustly, but who are also at grave risk of contracting COVID-19 in Iran\u2019s overcrowded and unhygienic prisons.<\/p>\n

Numerous political prisoners in Iran have\u00a0tested positive<\/a>\u00a0for COVID-19. Only a fraction have been tested and almost none have received proper medical care. Iran\u2019s political prisoners were largely left out of the country\u2019s March 2020 mass release of prisoners, which was aimed at stemming the mounting deaths from COVID-19 in Iran.<\/p>\n

Nasrin will be eligible for parole only after serving 12 years of her sentence. Among her charges were \u201cencouraging prostitution<\/a>\u201d for advocating against compulsory hijab and defending citizens\u2019 right to peaceful dissent.<\/p>\n

Germany\u2019s largest professional association of judges and public prosecutors, the German Judges Association, recently\u00a0awarded<\/a>\u00a0Sotoudeh its human rights prize, calling her \u201ca symbol of the Iranian civil rights movement.\u201d<\/p>\n

She was also the recipient in 2012 of the European Union\u2019s prestigious\u00a0Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought<\/a>\u00a0for her human rights work.<\/p>\n

Many lawyers<\/a>\u00a0are imprisoned in Iran, simply for defending political prisoners and basic civil rights and liberties\u2014including rights that are supposedly protected under Iranian law.<\/p>\n

In addition to participating in the online campaign, citizens worldwide are encouraged to ask their elected representatives to demand in bilateral and multilateral forums that Iranian officials free Sotoudeh and other political prisoners and cease jailing people for peaceful dissent.<\/p>\n

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