Free Nasrin Sotoudeh - Her Life is in Grave Danger
The Campaign to Defend Incarcerated
Mothers is launched to protest against illegal incarceration of Iranian thoughtful
mothers active in political, human rights, and ideological spheres. The
campaign is against exclusion of their most basic human rights and their
continuous torturing by using their children as a tool.
This campaign is ow Nasrin
Sotoude’s voice. Indeed, it’d be forever the voices of incarcerated mothers
like Nasrin Sotoudeh and Narges Mohammadi, who have been suffering from the continuous
pain of maternal separation for many years. Though, their voices have been
heard throughout the world even through the dark and tight cells. Their feminine
endurance alongside their maternal compassion have made them legends.
Therefore, they are known as courage symbols and have become global role models
for all political incarcerated mothers.
Today Nasrin Sotoudeh, a jailed
human-rights lawyer, is in grave danger as her physical health deteriorates after
ending a 49-day hunger strike. Narsin Sotoudeh’s mother passed away but she did
not get to see her mother for the last time as her father passed away before.
Based
on the reliable news sources, Nasrin Sotoudeh broke her hunger strike after
her thirteen year old daughter Mehrave's travel ban lifted. Though
she is no longer on hunger strike, she has not yet received any medical care
and her physical health has not improved since last month when she ended her
hunger strike.
Doctors say prolonged hunger strikes can cause irreversible
health complications, especially for women compared to men. It can lead to serious
health problems including severe digestive and kidney disease, arrhythmia (irregular
heartbeat), low blood pressure, weakness and disequilibrium due to it, eye
disease. Hunger strikers may also suffer from other serious and physical illnesses,
such as life-threatening brain damage, and devastating mental and psychological
disorders.
According to the above mentioned facts as well as the witnesses’
reports about Nasrin Sotoudeh, her condition is extremely worrisome and we
should not let campaigns stop their supports for her.
We, in this Campaign, warn again the
public about the physical and emotional condition of Nasrin Sotoudeh, the
winner of the 2012 Sakharov Prize and mother of two young children, and other
incarcerated mothers who have been deprived of their human and maternal rights;
whose infants and babies’ life are in grave dangers and severe security
prosecution. We ask the Iranian authorities to:
1- Arrange urgent medical examination outside
the prison on Nasrin Sotoudeh and other incarcerated patients with appropriate
medical services.
2-Comply with Iranian Constitution and international law,
and stop the physical and mental harassments of Nasrin and all the other
captive mothers. We also ask the authorities to stop the illegal and unmanly
ban of them seeing their children.
3-Stop destructing this prisoner hero woman before the eyes
of her innocent children, and do not ruin the future of these two innocent
kids.
4- Stop intimidation and threatening of Nasrin Sotoudeh’s
children who have been deprived of living with their mother, and do not exploit
them as a mean to put pressure on their mother.
5-Release Nasrin Sotoudeh unconditionally, since she has
been protecting the rights of liberty and life of her compatriots.
We also ask all human rights
defenders, women activists, children rights advocates, and humanity lovers, who
have dedicated themselves in defense of human rights in Iran, to:
1-Use their
utmost power for enlightening the public about the cruelties and extortion
against Nasrin Sotoudeh, this Iranian imprisoned mother
2-
Defend the trampled rights of the children of incarcerated mothers, especially
Nasrin Sotoudeh, and prevent these innocent kids being treated like criminals
and being deprived
of
their mother’s love at these critical ages of their lives.
3- Get
support from legal and political potentials, for incarcerated mothers and Nasrin
Sotoudeh being released from the prison and returning back to the bosom of her
family and children.
4-Apply
every possible way to put pressure on authorities of Islamic Republic of (Iran)
to make them stop the process of detention and torturing politically active
mothers.
The Campaign to Defend Incarcerated
Mothers
Jan 3, 2013