{"id":816,"date":"2020-12-02T21:41:38","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T21:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=131039"},"modified":"2020-12-02T21:41:38","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T21:41:38","slug":"iranian-activist-sotoudeh-back-in-prison-after-temporary-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2020\/12\/02\/iranian-activist-sotoudeh-back-in-prison-after-temporary-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian Activist Sotoudeh Back In Prison After Temporary Release"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh is back in prison<\/a><\/strong> less than a month after she was granted temporary release, her husband says.<\/p>\n

“We were told today that Nasrin has to go back to the Gharchak Women’s Prison” in Tehran, Reza Khandan wrote on Twitter<\/a><\/strong> on December 2.<\/p>\n

“Nasrin has returned to prison this evening,” he later told AFP.<\/p>\n

The judiciary has ignored the doctors’ instructions, who extended her detention leave by two weeks, according to Khandan.<\/p>\n

The 57-year-old Sotoudeh was released from the Gharchak prison on November 8 after being granted a temporary leave of absence.<\/p>\n

She then tested positive for the coronavirus, Khandan said<\/a><\/strong> on November 11.<\/p>\n

Human rights groups in October warned that her health severely deteriorated in prison following a seven-week hunger strike she had launched to seek the release of prisoners during the novel coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n

The lawyer, who has represented opposition activists including women prosecuted for removing their mandatory headscarf, was arrested in 2018 and charged with spying, spreading propaganda, and insulting Iran’s supreme leader.<\/p>\n

Sotoudeh, who denied the charges, was sentenced to a total of 38 1\/2 years in prison and 148 lashes.<\/p>\n

The European Parliament awarded her the Sakharov Prize for human rights in 2012.<\/p>\n

Since March, Iranian authorities have granted temporary release to tens of thousands of prisoners following concerns over the spread of the coronavirus in prisons in the Middle East’s worst-hit country. Many have since returned to prison.<\/p>\n

The Iranian health authorities have registered nearly 49,000 deaths in connection with COVID-19 and over 989,000 infections since the beginning of the pandemic.<\/p>\n

With reporting by AFP<\/h6>\n<\/div>\n\n

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