Nasrin Sotoudeh wrote that upon entering the detention center, agents bound her hands and feet and “beat her over the mandatory hijab.”
The page of the “Campaign for the Freedom of Reza Khandan,” the husband of Nasrin Sotoudeh, a prominent lawyer and human rights activist, has published a new image of the attorney along with an account of her arrest and the conditions of her detention facility during Iran’s blackout days.
In this note, quoted from Nasrin Sotoudeh, it is stated that Ministry of Intelligence agents raided her home on April 11 and subsequently transferred her to the ministry’s detention center. Nasrin Sotoudeh wrote that upon entering the detention center, agents tied her hands and feet and “beat her over the mandatory hijab.”
According to the human rights activist, the severity of the beating by the agents was such that signs of “bruising on her legs and face” remained visible for days after her arrest, and her mouth was wounded as a result of tape being placed over it.
In another section of the note, Sotoudeh pointed to the “inhumane” conditions of the detention center, writing: “The food they provided was inedible. The practice of beatings, arrests, and forced confessions was rampant, and individuals’ release was made conditional upon providing a forced confession on video.” During her detention, Nasrin Sotoudeh’s family was left unaware of her whereabouts, and she was only permitted to inform them of her well-being during brief phone calls.
Nasrin Sotoudeh wrote that she was released on May 13, following the opening of a new legal case, and she credited her freedom to those who, in her words, “have always paid attention to us political prisoners in Iran, from Iranians to non-Iranians whose hearts ache for modern-day human beings who are constantly forced to pay a price just to have an ordinary and honorable life.”
Concluding her message by emphasizing her opposition to any form of “war and tyranny,” she wrote that during her detention, whenever she heard the sounds of torture and beatings inside the facility, she protested loudly against it, viewing this action as her “humanitarian duty.”
Iranian Lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh Says Agents Beat Her in Detention Center
