Iran Arrests Lawyers Defending Feminist Activists

In the nation of Iran, it is not enough to arrest and imprison feminists who remove their hijab in protest of Iran's harsh discriminatory laws against women, they are now arresting lawyers who try to defend them from Iran's unfair policies.  In early June of 2018, prominent Iranian Human Rights Lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh was arrested and sent to Evin Prison for defending a young Iranian woman who publicly removed her hijab in protest of Iran's harsh laws against the rights of women.  This is not something new for Sotoudeh.  She had been arrested in 2010 for defending the rights of people unjustly persecuted by the Iranian regime and spent three years in prison.  She was not released until September of 2013.  Now sources are saying she has been sentenced to serve another five years in the notorious Evin prison, for the crime of defending innocent women who are fighting for their basic human rights. 


As it stands, the Iranian regime is only permitting 20 government appointed lawyers to oversee and defend the numerous regime dissents that have been incarcerated for opposing their tyranny.  This is so-called "defense" is in truth nothing but a farce.  Much like the way that the infamous Nazi "People's Court" appointed lawyers to dissidents only for the purpose of putting on a "show trial" that inevitably sentenced Nazi dissidents to prison, or death. 

Sources

 Feingold, Spencer.  "Prominent Iranian Human Rights Lawyer Detained Again."  CNN.  June 14, 2018.  Accessed from https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/14/middleeast/nasrin-sotoudeh-iran-human-rights-lawyer-detained/index.html

 "Iranian Woman who Removed Headscarf Jailed for Two Years."  The Guardian.  March 07, 2018.  Accessed from https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/07/iranian-woman-who-removed-headscarf-sentenced-to-two-years.

Wright, Robin.  "Iran's Orwellian of it's Own Female Human Rights Lawyer."  The New Yorker.  June 14, 2018.  Accessed from https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/irans-orwellian-arrest-of-a-leading-human-rights-lawyer


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