AMNESTY  INTERNATIONAL – IRAN
                                                                                                         

Your Excellency:

  We write to you to express deep concern for prominent human rights attorney and 
mother of two,  NASRIN SOTOUDEH. NASRIN, who has been detained since her arrest on 
4 September 2010, has been sentenced to 11 years in prison and banned from 
practicing law for 20 years.  She is convicted of charges of “acting against national security,” “not wearing 
hejab during a videotaped message,” and “propaganda against the regime.” 

NASRIN has undertakes three hunger strikes to protest conditions of her detention.  She is reportedly frail 
and has lost weight.

We the undersigned urge:

- Nasrin be treated humanely while in detention, and

- Nasrin be allowed regular access to her lawyer, family, and medical attention while detained. 

- Consider the UN Basic Principles of the Role of Lawyers; lawyers must be allowed to carry out their work 
“without intimidation, hindrance, harassment or improper interference.”   The Principles also affirm the right to 
lawyers to freedom of expression.

-Consider Article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, states “the right to take part in 
public discussion of matters concerning the law, the administration of justice and the promotion and protection of 
human rights.”

NASRIN SOTOUDEH is a Prison of Conscience (POC) targeted solely for her peaceful work representing clients and urge 
she be immediately and unconditionally released.

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Send To:  Ayatollah Sadegh Lurijani, Howzeh Riyasat-e Qoveh Qazaiyet (Office of the Head of the Judiciary), 
Pasteur Street, Vali Asr Avenue, south of Serah-e Jomhouri,Tehran 1316814737, ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN

Copies to:  Iranian Interests Section, 2209 Wisconsin Avenue NW, Washington DC 20007

United Nations Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights, UN Headquarters Room DC1511, New York NY 10017