Iran: jailed lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh hospitalized in worrying condition
Poster calling for the release of Nasrin Sotoudeh.
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Iranian lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh was hospitalized on Saturday, September 19.
Sentenced to 12 years in prison in 2019, this women's rights activist began a hunger strike more than 40 days ago.
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Nasrin Sotoudeh's
relatives
say they are worried about his life.
The Iranian lawyer, who began a late strike in August, was hospitalized on Saturday, September 19, "
severely weakened
" in her husband's words.
A concern shared by French MP Anne Genetet, who chairs the France-Iran friendship group in the National Assembly.
“
She was hospitalized urgently.
She was released from prison to be hospitalized in the intensive care unit for cardiology.
Being a doctor myself, I understand that his condition was particularly worrying for this choice to have been made
”, declared the elected official.
Very weakened by a hunger strike that began on August 11
Before his hospitalization, Nasrin Sotoudeh was serving his sentence in Evin prison, in northern Tehran, where the Franco-Iranian researcher
Fariba Adelkhah
is also incarcerated
.
This Tuesday, September 22, in the morning, the deputy Anne Genetet and one of her colleagues met the Iranian ambassador in France to denounce the imprisonment of Nasrin Sotoudeh: "
When we behave in this way and that we flout the humanist values that we defend, it is the image of a whole country and a whole people that risks being tainted.
This can only be deleterious for its image and its need for international support and recognition that Iran seeks today.
"
Aged 57, Nasrin Sotoudeh notably defended Iranian women who defied the obligation to wear the veil in their country, which earned her
her heavy sentence
, in particular for "inciting debauchery".
It was to denounce the conditions of imprisonment of political detainees in Iran that Nasrin Sotoudeh stopped eating on August 11.
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