Nasrin Sotoudeh has been defending these women in Iran’s courtrooms for years. Sotoudeh spoke to TIME on the protests in Iran
in a constellation of women’s rights advocates that includes Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi, a colleague and client. Sotoudeh spoke to TIME on Wednesday via Zoom from her Tehran home, where she is on medical furlough from the prison where she wasI should start by asking your current situation.I have been out of prison for 14 months on a medical furlough. But they can take me back to prison at any point in time that they wish.Yes, this has been the case whenever we have significant protests.
[She stifles a sob.] I apologize. This fulfills me with emotion and at times it’s hard for me to speak.women on Revolution Street My daughter will tell me that on her way to university, there are six checkpoints where the morality police inspects women and girls on their way to school. So at virtually any of these points she can be arrested and harassed and taken to prison. We are condemned to live in a tunnel of death.I remember during the years when the women’s movement was very active in Iran, I would give many interviews and often also speak to judges.
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