A outstanding Iranian human rights lawyer, Nasrin Sotoudeh, was arrested and severely crushed, her husband stated on Monday — certainly one of a number of activists taken into custody on the funeral in Tehran of a woman who was fatally injured after a reported confrontation with the enforcers of Iran’s strict gown code for ladies.
The activists had been arrested on Sunday on the funeral of Armita Geravand, a 16-year-old who died final week following what many imagine was an encounter over not masking her hair on Tehran’s subway, in defiance of the legislation imposed by the Shiite Islamic authorities.
Ms. Sotoudeh, 60, is famend for representing girls who haven’t worn a hijab, the standard head scarf, whereas in public, and for refusing to put on one herself. She has been imprisoned a number of occasions, and most lately had been convicted at a secret trial in 2019 of security-related crimes, however was launched in 2021 as a result of she suffers from coronary heart illness and different illnesses.
Her husband, Reza Khandan, stated in an interview she had referred to as him in the midst of the evening to inform him what had occurred, together with that her glasses had been damaged in custody.
“I think the broken glasses say enough. Nasrin also confirmed the beating and mentioned that it was bad,” he stated. When she was taken for a court docket look Monday morning, he introduced an intact pair of her glasses, he added, however the guards refused to present them to her.
Then she was transferred to Qarchak, a infamous girls’s jail outdoors Tehran.
The Fars News Agency, which is affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, accused Ms. Sotoudeh of “violating hijab rules” and “acting against the psychological security of society,” an offense that in keeping with the Center for Human Rights in Iran doesn’t exist in Iran’s penal code.
“I have heard that Nasrin had refused to wear a hijab until the very last moment before attending the hearing at Evin court,” Mr. Khandan stated.
She had targeted lately on her medical care and her household, not activism, “yet Armita’s case affected her deeply and she could not stay silent,” he stated. “She already packed her jail suitcase before leaving to attend the funeral.”
The case of Ms. Geravand stays murky. Iranian state tv has broadcast safety digital camera video of her stepping onto a subway prepare along with her hair uncovered on Oct. 1, and then being carried off the prepare minutes later, apparently unconscious. The authorities haven’t launched video from contained in the subway automobile.
Farzad Seifikaran, a journalist with Radio Zamaneh, reported that witnesses stated that after officers implementing the gown code confronted Ms. Geravand and two buddies, one of many officers pushed her and she struck her head, inflicting a cerebral hemorrhage. The authorities stated that she collapsed from low blood sugar as a result of she had skipped breakfast.
She was declared brain-dead on Oct. 23, as reported by state-owned media.
Her case has drawn parallels to that of Mahsa Amini, who died final 12 months within the custody of the “morality police” who had arrested her, charging that she had violated the hijab legislation. Her loss of life prompted among the largest protests in additional than 4 many years of theocratic rule, which Iran’s safety forces suppressed violently, inflicting a whole lot of deaths, in keeping with human rights teams.
