Nasrin Sotoudeh: Two Years Behind Bars, No Furlough

PERSIAN2ENGLISH – September 4, 2012 marks two years of imprisonment for Nasrin Sotoudeh, prominent lawyer and human rights activist. She has not been given any days of furlough since her arrest and has been deprived of actual contact with her two young children. The courageous and resilient Nasrin is sentenced to six years in prison and banned from her profession for ten years.
In a note posted yesterday on Facebook, Nasrin’s husband, Reza Khandan described her arrest. The following is an English translation of his note:

It was Saturday, September 4th, 2010. Nasrin had left early in the morning to follow up on some cases. She returned around 10 o’clock. We went to the courtroom that day along with her lawyer, Ms. Ghanavi, but we weren’t prepared for Nasrin’s arrest. In the scorching heat there was a large crowd gathered in front of the court, making entry in the building very difficult. Nasrin informed a guard that she had been summoned. “They summoned me. If they can’t facilitate my entrance to the building, then I’ll return home. They can then go through the trouble of sending a car to pick me up,” she said. The guard finally opened the way, and Nasrin went through the large crowd and entered the court. She didn’t have the chance to say goodbye to me. She figured she would return within the hour. She didn’t even say goodbye to the kids.

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