For Nasrin Sotoudeh’s third years of imprisonment 
From Nasrin Sotoudeh to her children

" I announce loudly that I am a mother "
By The Campaign to Defend Incarcerated Mothers
#Nasrin #Sotoudeh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4v7eK-wOamY

Free Nasrin Sotoudeh!

Free Nasrin Sotoudeh!

n Support of Nasrin Sotoudeh

Tonight (-5 degrees Celsius in Oslo),

like every Saturday afternoon Azadegan Norway gathered in Support of Nasrin Sotoudeh and all other prisoners of conscience! — at Nobel Peace Center.

(Amnesty International Netherlands)

This is the team Nasrin. (Amnesty International Netherlands) 

The 4weeksforfreedom began on 14 januari and wil be in Amnesty house till 8th february.

We will fight and do everything to get Nasrin free. We want to raise awarness on her case and we believe together we can make a change.

http://freenasrinsotoudeh.wordpress.com/2013/01/26/this-is-the-team-nasrin-amnesty-international-netherlands-the-4weeksforfree/

Nasrin Sotoudeh Temporarily Released From Prison

• By: Sarah Hoffman
• PUBLISHED ON JANUARY 17, 2013

We were thrilled to learn that Nasrin Sotoudeh, winner of the 2011 PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award, was temporarily releasedfrom Evin Prison today and reunited with her husband, Reza Khandan, and their two children. Her leave will last three days. During the two years that Nasrin has been imprisoned, she has gone on several hunger strikes, the most recent in protest of restrictions against her family. Over the course of the 48 days that she refused food, Nasrin dropped to 95 pounds and her health reached a critical level before authorities agreed to her demands, allowing a travel restriction against her 12-year-old daughter to be lifted.

An internationally-recognized champion of human rights in Iran, Nasrin Sotoudeh was sentenced to 11 years in prison, reduced to six years on appeal in September 2011, for giving interviews in defense of her clients following the disputed 2009 presidential elections.

PEN welcomes this most recent decision to finally allow Nasrin Sotoudeh to return home, and calls on the Iranian authorities to extend this release indefinitely and unconditionally in accordance with her right to freedom of expression.

http://www.pen.org/blog/nasrin-sotoudeh-temporarily-released-prison

Nasrin Sotoudeh was allowed a "3 day furlough" a few hours ago after more than two years

OUR BELOVED NASRIN SOTOUDEH HAS BEEN RELEASED ON A THREE-DAY FURLOUGH...AND REUNITED WITH HER LITTLE NIMA

https://www.facebook.com/NasrinSotoudeh

Free Nasrin Sotoudeh - Her Life is in Grave Danger

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

In support of Reza Shahabi & Nasrin Sotudeh

Campaign in support of Reza Shahabi, Nasrin Sotudeh and other political prisoners in Iran at Nobel peace center in Oslo . Saturday, January 5, 2013

Reza Khandan Extends Gratitude To All Who Supported His Family

Nasrin Sotoudeh’s Husband, Reza Khandan Extends Gratitude To All Who Supported His Family

Nasrin Sotoudeh’s husband, Reza Khandan, in a message posted on his Facebook. thanked all those from around the world who sent cards and letters supporting and sympathizing with his family:

Every month we receive hundreds of letters and post cards from our fellow citizens and from people around the world, in which they graciously expressed sympathy with us.

Recently their number has increased exponentially. Canada, Norway, the United States, Germany and the Netherlands are the countries that have the highest share in these letters and postcards.

Below is the image of one of these letters we have received from the residents of a village called “Boskamp”, along with pictures of their beautiful lushly green village.

Translation by Persianbanoo