mobanmarketFrom her cell inside Tehran’s Evin prison, Nasrin Sotoudeh took a small stand against the Iranian regime that jailed her: she refused to wear a hijab.
It was 2010 and the prominent human rights lawyer, known for defending dissidents and opposition figures, was under arrest on charges of spreading propaganda and endangering national security.
Guards would come to her, sometimes pleading and sometimes threatening, to try to make her put on a prison-issue chador, a full length garment that leaves only a woman’s face uncovered. She resisted, even when authorities extended her sentence for bad behaviour.
Nearly a decade later, Ms Sotoudeh is fighting a new and larger battle as she represents young…
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