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I would like to tell you about Nasrin Sotoudeh, a human rights lawyer whose case is particularly poignant. In 2019, she was sentenced to 38 years in prison and 148 lashes for her human rights work against discriminatory laws forcing women to wear the hijab. In 2012, she received the Sakharov Prize from the European Parliament [Technical difficulty—Editor].
Repression in Iran knows no bounds. Toomaj Salehi, a protest rapper, is a striking example of that. He was sentenced to death in April 2024 for “corruption on earth”. Toomaj was arrested, [Technical difficulty—Editor] then released on bail, only to be arrested again in 2022, tortured and imprisoned in isolation. His lyrics condemned social injustices—