After attending the funeral of Armita Geravand, the teenage woman who died after being injured in an alleged encounter with police on Tehran’s metro, Iranian authorities arrested a number one human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh on Sunday.
Reportedly, Sotoudeh was detained on a cost of violating Iran’s necessary headband or hijab regulation. A number of arrests had been made by the authorities on the funeral of Geravand as nicely.
Sotoudeh, 60, is understood for defending activists, opposition politicians and girls in Iran. She has been combating for the ladies’s rights in Iran as nicely.
Whereas talking about Geravand’s dying, Sotoudeh had stated it was “one other state homicide” on Saturday.
This isn’t the primary time Sotoudeh is getting arrested. She was arrested in 2018 on fees of collusion and propaganda in opposition to Iran’s rulers and finally was sentenced to 38 years in jail and 148 lashes, reported The Related Press. Nevertheless, she was launched in 2020 with out saying the grounds on which the choice was taken.
“She was arrested through the funeral Gerawand together with others…She was violently crushed,” Reza Khandan, Sotoudeh’s husband instructed AFP.
She was awarded the European parliament’s 2012 Sakharov prize for her human rights work.
Iranian state media had stated Geravand, who fell right into a coma after alleged encounter with the cops, was ‘mind useless’. The incident happened on October 1. Activists had accused the morality police of assaulting her for not sporting a hijab. Nevertheless, Iran had denied studies of Geravand being damage after the confrontation. Geravand had collapsed after boarding the metro prepare.
The footage launched by the authorities present Geravand boarding from Shohada station and later she being carried out of the prepare by a number of different passengers. The visuals from contained in the prepare was not launched by the authorities.
