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The Times – Dec. 18, 2010
Nasrin Sotoudeh has spent 105 days in solitary confinement and is so weak from her hunger strike that she can barely finish sentences.
The leading Iranian human rights lawyer has nonetheless issued a declaration of defiance from her prison cell.
‘If you are going to hell, then go like a man,' she told The Times in a message sent from Tehran's infamous Evin prison via her husband, Reza Khandan. 'Let them give me a harsh sentence because that brings a person honour’.
Mr Khandan, who risked reprisals for speaking to a foreign journalist, said that he was proud of his wife and supported her stand, whatever the price.
‘I very much fear for her life, but I don't know what I can do to save her,' he said.
Ms Sotoudeh, 47, the mother of two young children, is becoming the latest symbol of the regime's barbarity.
She was arrested on September 4 for defending Shirin Ebadi, the exiled Nobel Peace laureate, and dozens of political prisoners arrested after last year's disputed election.
Since then she has been denied almost any contact with her lawyer and family, and was refused permission to attend her father's funeral.
She went on a dry hunger strike, taking no fluids, that the authorities thwarted by putting her on a drip, but then she began a hunger strike on December 6.
Ms Sotoudeh is awaiting what her husband expects to be a long sentence on charges of spreading propaganda and threatening national security.
She faces an additional charge of appearing with her head uncovered in a film that she made for an awards ceremony in Italy in December last year, which she had been barred from attending.
British ambassador in Tehran Simon Gass said: 'Her real crime is doing her job courageously and highlighting injustices that the regime would prefer stayed hidden’.
Ms Sotoudeh gave her husband the message for The Times during a rare telephone conversation.
‘Her voice was trembling and extremely weak. She had to summon all her energy to finish her sentences,' he said.
Nasrin Sotoudeh has spent 105 days in solitary confinement and is so weak from her hunger strike that she can barely finish sentences.
The leading Iranian human rights lawyer has nonetheless issued a declaration of defiance from her prison cell.
‘If you are going to hell, then go like a man,' she told The Times in a message sent from Tehran's infamous Evin prison via her husband, Reza Khandan. 'Let them give me a harsh sentence because that brings a person honour’.
Mr Khandan, who risked reprisals for speaking to a foreign journalist, said that he was proud of his wife and supported her stand, whatever the price.
‘I very much fear for her life, but I don't know what I can do to save her,' he said.
Ms Sotoudeh, 47, the mother of two young children, is becoming the latest symbol of the regime's barbarity.
She was arrested on September 4 for defending Shirin Ebadi, the exiled Nobel Peace laureate, and dozens of political prisoners arrested after last year's disputed election.
Since then she has been denied almost any contact with her lawyer and family, and was refused permission to attend her father's funeral.
She went on a dry hunger strike, taking no fluids, that the authorities thwarted by putting her on a drip, but then she began a hunger strike on December 6.
Ms Sotoudeh is awaiting what her husband expects to be a long sentence on charges of spreading propaganda and threatening national security.
She faces an additional charge of appearing with her head uncovered in a film that she made for an awards ceremony in Italy in December last year, which she had been barred from attending.
British ambassador in Tehran Simon Gass said: 'Her real crime is doing her job courageously and highlighting injustices that the regime would prefer stayed hidden’.
Ms Sotoudeh gave her husband the message for The Times during a rare telephone conversation.
‘Her voice was trembling and extremely weak. She had to summon all her energy to finish her sentences,' he said.
مقاومت وکیل ایرانی در عین تشدید عوارض اعتصاب غذا
نسرین ستوده 105روز را در زندان انفرادی به‌سر برده و به‌دلیل اعتصاب‌غذا آنقدر ضعیف است که به سختی می‌تواند محکومیتش را به پایان برساند.
با این وجود، این وکیل ایرانی برجسته حقوق‌بشر، یک بیانیه مقاومت از سلول خود منتشر کرده است.
او در پیامی که از طریق همسر وی، رضا خندان، از زندان بدنام اوین در تهران ارسال شده بود به تایمز گفت، ”اگر قرار است به جهنم بروید، مثل یک مرد بروید (if you are going to hell، then go like a man). بگذار به من محکومیت سختی بدهند، زیرا این باعث افتخار است. “
آقای خندان، که به‌خاطر صحبت با یک خبرنگار خارجی احتمال دارد مورد انتقام جویی قرار گیرد، گفت که او به همسرش افتخار می‌کند و از موضع وی حمایت می‌کند، و قیمتش هر چه می‌خواهد باشد.
او گفت، ”من شدیداً نگران جان او هستم، ولی نمی‌دانم برای نجات جانش چه کاری از دستم بر می‌آید. “ …
او تقریباً از هرگونه رابطه با وکیل و خانواده‌اش منع شده، و اجازه نیافت در مراسم خاک سپاری پدرش حضور یابد…
خانم ستوده در یک تماس نادر تلفنی، این پیام به تایمز را، به همسر خود داد.
او گفت، ”صدای او میلرزید و شدیداً ضعیف بود. او باید برای به اتمام رساندن جملاتش تمام انرژیاش را به‌کار می‌گرفت. “ (تایمز - 27/9/89)
با این وجود، این وکیل ایرانی برجسته حقوق‌بشر، یک بیانیه مقاومت از سلول خود منتشر کرده است.
او در پیامی که از طریق همسر وی، رضا خندان، از زندان بدنام اوین در تهران ارسال شده بود به تایمز گفت، ”اگر قرار است به جهنم بروید، مثل یک مرد بروید (if you are going to hell، then go like a man). بگذار به من محکومیت سختی بدهند، زیرا این باعث افتخار است. “
آقای خندان، که به‌خاطر صحبت با یک خبرنگار خارجی احتمال دارد مورد انتقام جویی قرار گیرد، گفت که او به همسرش افتخار می‌کند و از موضع وی حمایت می‌کند، و قیمتش هر چه می‌خواهد باشد.
او گفت، ”من شدیداً نگران جان او هستم، ولی نمی‌دانم برای نجات جانش چه کاری از دستم بر می‌آید. “ …
او تقریباً از هرگونه رابطه با وکیل و خانواده‌اش منع شده، و اجازه نیافت در مراسم خاک سپاری پدرش حضور یابد…
خانم ستوده در یک تماس نادر تلفنی، این پیام به تایمز را، به همسر خود داد.
او گفت، ”صدای او میلرزید و شدیداً ضعیف بود. او باید برای به اتمام رساندن جملاتش تمام انرژیاش را به‌کار می‌گرفت. “ (تایمز - 27/9/89)
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