DEC-OCT — Panahi Receives 6-Year Prison Sentence and 20-Year Ban on Filmmaking
December 20, 2010Statement in Support of Human Rights Lawyer
December 23, 2010Nasrin Sotoudeh, a lawyer who has fought for human rights in Iran has been in prison for several months and was on a dry hunger strike that threatened her life. “It’s people like her that the Iranian government fears,” Nobel laureate, Shirin Ebadi said. Shirin Ebadi and other activists staged a sit-in in Geneva in front of the UN’s human rights in order to bring attention to her situation and to the situation of other prisoners of conscience in Iran’s prisons. More at United4Iran.