Nasrin Sotudeh, a jurist, lawyer and member of the Center for Human Rights Advocates has been summoned to the second branch of Evin’s prosecutor office.
“Last Sunday I was informed of a judiciary documents very similar to a document used to summon a suspect. However, there was no term of ‘summoning’ seen in this document,” Masrin Sotudeh said.
The reason behind this summoning has been to provide explanations on charges in her files, and the summoning branch is the 2nd interrogation branch of Evin prosecutor’s office adjacent to Evin Prison.
Ms. Sotudeh had been previously arrested in 2010 following her human rights activities, and sentenced to six years in jail and a 10-year ban from practicing law. She was held in Evin Prison from September 4, 2010 to September 18, 2013 on charges of “action against national security”. After her release according to orders issued by the Lawyers Security Court in October 2014 she was banned from practicing law for 3 years.
This lawyer staged a sit-in starting October 21, 2014 outside the Iran Bar Association in Tehran. This sit-in continued nearly every day and Mrs. Sotudeh and her husband were arrested by the Ministry of Intelligence a few times, each round held for a few hours.
Nasrin Sotudeh says, “I have been threatened many times from the beginning of my sit-in outside the Iran Bar association. Even once a motorcyclist came and threatened to execute me. During the months of my protest, on three occasions Ministry of Intelligence agents arrested me along with my husband. Those days I received a phone call from an individual introducing himself as an intelligence agent asking me to refrain from giving interviews with foreign media.”
Mrs. Sotudeh went on to say, “During the past two months I have continuously received threatening text messages, in which the sender mentioned unspecific demands and said if these demands are not met it will lead to acid attacks against me, my limbs being torn apart and death. These were the problems that I faced during this period.”
(NCRI – August 20, 2015)
