Nasrin Sotoudeh and the Struggle for Human Rights in Iran

“I realize they had arrested me for my work on human rights, the defense of women’s rights activists, and the fight against the death penalty. Still, I will not be silenced.”

With this courageous cri de coeur, human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh launched her hunger strike. Imprisoned yet again in Iran’s notorious Evin Prison, Sotoudeh is both the embodiment of the struggle for human rights in Iran, as well as the symbol of the Iranian regime’s massive domestic repression.