Nasrin Sotoudeh was one of several activists arrested at the funeral of Armita Geravand, a 16-year-old girl who died after not wearing a head covering in public, in a case that drew parallels to ...

Documentary director Jeff Kaufman has given an update on the situation for detained award-winning Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh following an in-depth call with her husband Reza Khandan.

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Nasrin Sotoudeh said she had seen an official dossier that showed the woman had been released. "The girl of the Enghelab Avenue has been released", Mrs Sotoudeh, a former political prisoner ...

Nasrin Sotoudeh, pictured after being freed in 2013 after serving around half of a six-year jail sentence for spreading propaganda and conspiring to harm state security, charges she denied (AFP ...

Touch is not the only prohibition in Iranian cinema. The government has sought to align cinema and other arts with its ...

Jimmy Lai, a journalist, writer, media publisher, and pro-democracy activist, has won PEN Canada’s One Humanity Award. Lai, ...

Reza Khandan, the husband of imprisoned human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, said in a Facebook post that Ms Moore-Gilbert was in "a very bad condition". He wrote that she had told him ...

Let's do it again. Nasrin Sotoudeh has been sentenced to 38 years and 148 lashes for her work defending women’s rights. Call for her to be released immediately. Urge the Cuban Embassy to call for Luis ...