ALJAZEERA: Tehran released eleven of Iran’s most prominent political prisoners, including prominent human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, days before President Hassan Rouhani’s first speech to the United Nations General Assembly…
Sotoudeh, who was serving six years for “acting against national security,” told the New York Times, “I don’t know why they released me. I don’t know under what legal basis they released me. But I am free.”…
Prior to her arrest, Sotoudeh defended journalists and human rights activists including Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi… (more)
