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Prominent Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh has been arrested while attending the funeral of teenager Armita Geravand, who died after allegedly being assaulted by morality police on the Tehran metro system for not wearing Iran‘s obligatory headscarf.
Geravand, 16, was hospitalized on October 1, where she fell into a coma and was announced as having died on October 28.
The incident has drawn parallels with the death of Mahsa Amini in police custody in September 2022, after being arrested for not covering her hair properly, which sparked the ongoing Woman Life Freedom demonstrations.
The protests have ebbed after their initial ferocity amid a tough clampdown by Iran’s hardline Islamist authorities, but there are suggestions that Geravand’s death could become a fresh flashpoint.
In a statement denouncing Sotoudeh’s detention, New York-based freedom of expression champion PEN America said the lawyer was arrested for not wearing a hijab at Geravand’s funeral service.
The body reported she was being held at the Vozara Detention Center, which is used to hold women accused of failing to wear the mandatory hijab and is where Amini was taken before she died.
Sotoudeh has been in and out of jail since 2010 for her human rights work as a lawyer, which has included representing political activists and women who removed the obligatory head scarf.
The lawyer is also known in the cinema world for her appearance in Jafar Panahi’s 2015 Berlinale Golden Bear winner Taxi, in which she boards his vehicle on route to see her then client Ghoncheh Ghavami, a British-Iranian woman who was detained in 2014 for going to see a male volleyball match.
Sotoudeh and Panahi had previously shared the Sakharov Prize of the European
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