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Islamic Republic of Iran: Lawyer who defended anti-hijab protesters arrested, taken to prison called “hell on earth”

Jun 18, 2018 10:35 am By Robert Spencer

One would think that Western feminists would be speaking up for Nasrin Sotoudeh, but that would be “Islamophobic.”

“Human rights lawyer is arrested and taken to Iran’s notorious Evin prison known as ‘hell on earth’ after defending anti-hijab protesters,” by George Martin, Mailonline, June 13, 2018 (thanks to the Geller Report):

Iran’s award-winning human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh was arrested on Wednesday, her husband said in a Facebook post.

‘A few hours ago Nasrin was arrested at home and transferred to Evin,’ Tehran’s notorious prison where many political prisoners are held, her husband Reza Khandan wrote.

Sotoudeh, 55, one of the few outspoken advocates for human rights in Iran, recently represented several women arrested for protesting against the mandatory wearing of headscarves.

Tehran police said in February that 29 women had been detained for posing in public without their headscarves in the previous weeks.

Khandan’s Facebook message was defiant, saying: ‘I once told interrogators in the interrogating room: “Of all the things the authorities should do for their country, you only know one and that is arresting people.”‘…

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  1. Eur says

    Jun 18, 2018 at 10:37 am

    If any Iranian woman read this message … come to Europe, flee from Islam, welcome to freedom.

    • Santa Voorhees says

      Jun 18, 2018 at 11:36 am

      Well better wait until Europe gets 100% rid of leftism, which is defending the very same ideology the oppressed iranian women are fleeing from.

      Until then, I would recommend only Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and Czech for sure.

      Definitely avoid UK, France, Belgium Germany and Sweden.

      • Eur says

        Jun 18, 2018 at 1:30 pm

        Accepting Iranian (and even Saudi) women as political refugees would be a decisive step in the criminalization of Islam and uncovering that criminal political ideology as what it is … supremacist, sexist, Nazi and fascist totalitarianism. All women oppressed by Islam should be able to be welcomed in our countries. Those women who live in the West and want to profess the Islamic religion should be invited to go to any impoverished Islamic well, not necessarily poor, they can always be the fourth wife of some Arab prince. I have no doubt that the key lies in the liberation of women. Islam is a religion conceived, written and directed by men, its messages are very “masculine”. It must be women who uncover the miseries of that culture / religion / society / politics / civilization.

        • mummymovie says

          Jun 18, 2018 at 5:46 pm

          In addition to women, I think men who wish to leave islam should also be protected and facilitated in doing so in the West.

          Shelters and/or support groups and networks need to be established. Much like women’s shelters and support groups operate here in the U.S. to protect women from violence committed by spurned husbands and lovers, stalkers, etc. and other types of battery and abuse. The more secure and impenetrable, the better.

          This would be an excellent way to counter the spread of sharia law in the West, and a devastating blow to the pervasive web of fear that islam casts and uses to keep its slaves and victims in line to prevent them from speaking out about the many horrors of this so-called religion, which masquerades as such, to hide the fact that it is nothing but a brutal, murderous, totalitarian ideology.

        • gravenimage says

          Jun 20, 2018 at 11:49 pm

          Unfortunately, some Muslim women are as committed to Islam as are the men.

    • Amnon says

      Jun 19, 2018 at 5:52 am

      What freedom? Also Europe is becoming more Islamic than any other area on earth! By 2050 75percent of worlds population will be islamic.

    • germlisch says

      Jun 19, 2018 at 3:48 pm

      Why does “everyone” have to come to the west? Or why do many people in western countries say: “come over here”? The western world went through their woes and got rid of their tyrants. Anyone who is not sytisfied with their country needs to stay in their own counry and “clean it up”. The western world has evough problems tending to our own poor, uneducated, and criminal citizens. Not to mention not enough funding for social system, infrastructure, schools, etc.

  2. Billy Chickens says

    Jun 18, 2018 at 10:52 am

    But…but…but…Theresa May just made a video saying how great Islam is. So surely Nasrin Sotoudeh will be treated well in prison and not gang raped repeatedly at the whim of guards. Right? Surely she will emerge from prison fresh as a daisy and go back to fulfilling life under the wondrous code of Islam.

    • Eur says

      Jun 18, 2018 at 11:17 am

      Today a ship full of African immigrants arrived in Spain. All the women have suffered abuses and rapes while crossing the Maghreb … all of them. There is a network of mosques to help black immigrants who want to go to Europe, in those mosques as well as food is where the mafias contact immigrants and abuses begin. That is Islam.
      The Spanish government has asked for help from thousands of people to cooperate and assist immigrants. Many Muslims have offered themselves as interpreters of Arabic … do you know what they have done? The first thing they were told was that they should not be treated by a sanitary man who, as Muslims, had the right to demand a sanitarian woman. It seems that the Magrebies have not realized that among the interpreters there were also non-Muslims. The Muslims always wanting to give trouble to the unfaithful society. They give real disgust, they are the enemy and show it daily. The volunteers have received the immigrants with hugs, with information, they have offered empathy, affection … and the Moroccans have pressed them to continue under the control of the ummah. Islam is a mafia.

  3. Mo says

    Jun 18, 2018 at 10:58 am

    This is true courage. But women in my country have no interest. They are too busy marching around with ridiculous pink hats, spewing vulgarities, and shrieking about their “right” to murder their own children.

    May the Lord Jesus Christ give her protection and strength to endure this!

  4. Lisa Letto says

    Jun 18, 2018 at 10:58 am

    Can the IRONY of this story be more obvious, even to a leftist?

  5. John Hawk says

    Jun 18, 2018 at 11:43 am

    Yes, nothing like an evil Islamic patriarchy to put things into perspective. As Persian women bravely battle real oppression — at the risk of their lives — Western feminists combat the horrors of mansplaining and sexist air conditioners.

  6. Azadeh says

    Jun 18, 2018 at 1:02 pm

    as an Iranian I have experienced unholy leftist Marxist and Islamist alliance in 70`s.

    Leftist were eager to ride the Tiger but their Islamist colleagues tore them one by one apart and established their own inhumane Islamic shiaa caliph

    now Europe and the civilized but naive west is experiencing the same disastrous tragedy.

    Sweden leftist feminist traders shamefully wore headscarf to do business with Mullahs.

    It seems that all political , cultural, social, church,..,…. institution in Europe and west are determined to commit social suicide and silent majority , voters are going to let it happen. Perhaps The west is tired of its own freedom.

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 18, 2018 at 11:02 pm

      Grimly true, Azadeh.

  7. Walter Sieruk says

    Jun 18, 2018 at 1:24 pm

    About that ruthless cruel brutal tyrannical regime of Iran what so unfittingly has the word “Republic” in its title ,for its called “ The Islamic Republic of Iran” [ I R I]. On the topic of this Islamic tyranny a former Muslim revealed that “The IRI system recognizes women as dependent upon men and incomplete human beings who need to be supervised and controlled by men and the State. This author further exposed that “Women are created for the purposes of giving pleasure to men and child bearing – functions that confine them to the home” This is a male Chauvinistic as can possibly be. In addition this writer further makes it known that “The IRI legal system still retains traditional patriarchal bias that can be described as nothing but systemic subordination of women , which is undoubtedly a human rights violation .” This author further reveals that “Iran is of what Islamic fundamentalists desire, an Islamic State, and the consequence of achieving it “State Terror. Instead of utopia, Iran is an Islamic totalitarian nightmare…” and “the Islamic Republic of Iran exists and operates as what every Islamic fundamentalist dreams of, an Islamic state ruled by Sharia …What followed its establishment was the inevitable consequence and inexorable logic of its Islamic premises; state terrorism, a merciless tyranny.” [1] This heinous Islamic has been also exposed by another author who was born and lived in a Middle Eastern nation for many years. She wrote “Female freedom and independence is one of the greatest sins in Islam…” and “Women in Islam are considered unclean, deemed inferior even to dirt.” [2] All this is wicked, unjust and misogynistic to the extreme. Islam had not regard for human life, regardless of what the apologists for this religion will claim.

    [1] THE ISLAM IN ISLAMIC TERRORISM BY Ibn Warraq. pages 345-347.
    [2] THEY MUST BE STOPPED by Brigitte Gabriel pages 62, 172

  8. Rarely says

    Jun 18, 2018 at 1:34 pm

    The current “Women’s Lib” movement is too busy with the “white male privilege” thing to involve itself in any cause where the evil white male is not the subjugator. They have unrelenting tunnel vision.

  9. Ibrahim itace muhammed says

    Jun 18, 2018 at 4:23 pm

    These anti-hijab protesters, if at all they exist in Iran, are just agents of mithraist christian nudists.who told them muslim women dislike modest and decent hijab dressing?. in fact it is éducated and enlightened muslim women who are demanding for their right to wear hijab in some Muslim countries where idiot leaders ban it in public places. It means anti-hijab groups are anti-human right groups. simple!!

    • don vito says

      Jun 18, 2018 at 4:50 pm

      itace, you should continue with your education on when Yeshua became the son of God. Getting that answer is more important for your liberation from islam, the foolish worrying about what women wear. Good luck future apostate.

      • Ibrahim itace muhammed says

        Jun 18, 2018 at 5:29 pm

        Don Vito, when and how Jesus became Godman and begotten son of God? mithraist Bible says “today I have begotten you “,when was that? was it at the beginning when Jesus was “word “with God? who existed first, Jesus as a word or God who begot him?
        Vito, you cannot avoid these questions whenever you invite an enlightened muslim like me to mithraist christianity.
        Thank you

        • David B. says

          Jun 18, 2018 at 6:23 pm

          Next time you want to babble and pretend you understand Christianity, try going to a Church first. Oh! I forgot your “tolerant” religion won’t allow that will it?

      • gravenimage says

        Jun 18, 2018 at 11:09 pm

        The vile Ibrahim itace muhammed wrote:

        These anti-hijab protesters, if at all they exist in Iran, are just agents of mithraist christian nudists.who told them muslim women dislike modest and decent hijab dressing?.
        ……………………………

        What does Ibrahim itace muhammed consider “modest”, besides forcing women to immure themselves in Chadors, and imprison and abuse them if they balk at this?

        Why, “marrying” little girls, raping Infidel women, and keeping them as sex slaves.

        So much for Muslim “modesty”.

        More:

        in fact it is éducated and enlightened muslim women who are demanding for their right to wear hijab in some Muslim countries where idiot leaders ban it in public places.
        ……………………………

        What Muslim countries are banning the headscarf at this point? What crap.

        More:

        It means anti-hijab groups are anti-human right groups. simple!!
        ……………………………

        Uh huh. Ibrahim itace muhammed considers the forced wearing of Hijab to be “human rights”. Add this to his claims that Muslims must be allowed to “marry” children and rape and murder Infidels, or they are not being allowed to practice their faith. *Ugh*.

        • Ibrahim itace muhammed says

          Jun 19, 2018 at 11:34 am

          David B, you mean I should go to mithraist church to sing, dance and clap for the Satan? If I enter church your Satan god (Holy Spirit) will run away from there. Then you have to wear winged gowns jumping to meet him in the heaven.

        • gravenimage says

          Jun 19, 2018 at 8:18 pm

          Ibrahim itace muhammed wrote:

          David B, you mean I should go to mithraist church to sing, dance and clap for the Satan?
          ………………………..

          Firstly, my username is not David B.

          Then, Ibrahim itace muhammed has said this before–that Christians who sing, dance, or clap in their worship are “for Satan”.

          Note that he has *no* such problems with Muslims raping or murdering in the name of Allah. *Very* telling.

          More:

          If I enter church your Satan god (Holy Spirit) will run away from there.
          ………………………..

          He has also talked about invading churches and terrifying the worshippers there. Presumably this is a lightly-veiled reference to some sort of Jihad terror attack.

          More:

          Then you have to wear winged gowns jumping to meet him in the heaven.
          ………………………..

          And *this* is just bizarre. He has also said that Christians wear “winged gowns”–whatever they are–and ‘jump up to heaven’. When I was away from Jihad Watch a few weeks ago with a computer problem, he said that I must have ‘jumped up to heaven’.

          Of course, there is no such Christian doctrine, nor any such Christian custom. Who knows what this vicious Mohammedan is babbling about?

    • 6woods says

      Jun 18, 2018 at 5:20 pm

      Hey Ibby-the-islamic-imbecile, if not wearing a smelly greasy hijab on your head equals nudity, why are pious muslim ‘men’ allowed to walk around completely nude? Why don’t they have to cover their hideous nakedness with a slave-rag?

      • gravenimage says

        Jun 18, 2018 at 11:17 pm

        *Great* question, 6woods!

  10. Older Canadian says

    Jun 18, 2018 at 5:09 pm

    This poor woman. Can’t imagine how horrid it must be to live in such a country. I hope she survives.

    • 6woods says

      Jun 18, 2018 at 5:22 pm

      She won’t. Do some research on Evin Prison.

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 18, 2018 at 11:22 pm

      +1

  11. Wellington says

    Jun 18, 2018 at 5:46 pm

    Ah, where is christianblood yet again asserting that Iran is fine but Saudi Arabia is the real problem?

    Hint: christianblood has no capacity to criticize anything Russia and Putin do, but he is only too ready to defame the West and point to Saudi malevolence (which most certainly exists—see how it’s done, christianblood; I mean never admitting that your “side” is wrong is just effing stupid and you still don’t get this).

    Well, christianblood, what about here, with this example in Iran? Or are you still going to just suck up to Putin and Russia again and inveigh against the West all the while averring that Holy Mother Russia is just fine with its alliances with that portion of the Islamic world it chooses to align with?

    You know, “All Russia, All The Time” only makes your defenses all the more risible, dismissible and contemptible. But you won’t get this. No, you won’t.

    Meanwhile, huge numbers of people in Iran, such as this woman, and especially young people, are oppressed by the Iranian regime which Putin’s support of you find no fault with. Gettin’ the bigger picture here? Of course you’re not. If you respond at all, it will just be ad nauseam again how the West is bad and Holy Mother Russia is just fine, blah, blah, blah, even though Putin back in 2015 lauded the opening of the largest mosque in Moscow and the Russian Patriarch has many times made that bogus of bogus distinctions between “Islam” and “radical Islam.”

    Well, for the record, I am damn sick of Holy Mother Russia. It never learns, including how to apologize at all, never mind its looking upon countries like Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland as either vassals or enemies. Done here—for now.

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 18, 2018 at 11:26 pm

      Good post, Wellington.

  12. gravenimage says

    Jun 18, 2018 at 10:56 pm

    Islamic Republic of Iran: Lawyer who defended anti-hijab protesters arrested, taken to prison called “hell on earth”
    ……………………….

    This poor woman. Nasrin Sotoudeh is a political prisoner.

  13. Matthieu Baudin says

    Jun 18, 2018 at 11:15 pm

    “… A few hours ago Nasrin was arrested at home and transferred to Evin,’ Tehran’s notorious prison where many political prisoners are held, her husband Reza Khandan wrote…”

    Iran’s revolutionary detention centres and jails provide steady jobs and satisfying working conditions for a great many sadists who enjoy the backing of the ruling Theocracy. Normally one would assume that British Prisons met a far superior standard of treatment for it’s prisoners, but that countries prominent political prisoner, Mr Robinson, may in fact be less likely to emerge from his prison spell alive than the Islamic Republic’s Mrs Nasrin.

  14. Giacomo Latta says

    Jun 19, 2018 at 7:45 am

    Check the Western media reports. If anyone in a Muslim country tries to fight against Islam, they are not labeled Muslim or former Muslim, but if anyone attacks a Muslim, even another Muslim, then it’s poor Islam being attacked again.

  15. TWG says

    Jun 19, 2018 at 9:47 am

    Ms. Sotoudeh is a brave Woman, indeed. I pray for her safety.

    I also pray the Persians yank the regime off their thrones and take their country back. I know several Persians. They are not moslems, and they are quite offended to be accused of being moslem. The Persians I know are good people who have great pride in their heritage. They Love others and share absolutely nothing in common with moslems.

    I long for the day they get rid of their oppressors there in Iran.

  16. Vicky says

    Jun 19, 2018 at 10:08 am

    This is what happens to women who publicly refuse to wear the Hijab, or they speak out for other women who don’t want to wear it, in a country where muslims are in the majority. This is what sick and twisted American feminists want for them, and for you and your daughters.

    • gravenimage says

      Jun 19, 2018 at 8:48 pm

      Actually, most feminists are in complete denial over Hijab being so often forced. They think wearing it is always a choice.

      • Wellington says

        Jun 19, 2018 at 10:57 pm

        Agreed, gravenimage. Most Western feminists are indeed in complete denial about “the hijab matter” as they are about so many other matters. The root cause of all this fallacious thinking is Leftism, though general ignorance and taking freedom for granted as the majority of feminists do (my guess would be all, not just the majority, otherwise they wouldn’t be “feminists’), are also factors. Even non-Leftists can be mighty ignorant and take freedom for granted.

        What a silly time we live in. Just when one civilization, and one civilization only, i.e., Western Civilization, has achieved so much in the areas of liberty, equality under the law, science, technology and the capacity to apologize for past wrongdoings, very foolish albeit well educated people in the West continue to tear down the very civilization that has given them so much, all the while defending lesser cultures like the Islamic world where true oppression and the stultification of the mind are virtually ubiquitous. This is, in part, why I often refer to our time as the Age of Nonsense.

        Maybe man is the most idiotic animal after all. I mean what other animal has so much potential and yet misuses that potential as frequently as the species, Homo sapiens, does?

        • gravenimage says

          Jun 20, 2018 at 11:55 pm

          All true, Wellington.

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