Activist is approaching the 50th day of her hunger strike, Maya Oppenheim reports
No one is more emblematic of the struggle to achieve the freedoms that we still take for granted in the west than Sotoudeh, whose clients include women jailed for taking their hijabs off in street protests last yearleading human rights defender is “on her last legs” after authorities signed the prisoner’s “death warrant” by denying her an urgent heart-related procedure, campaigners warned.
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