Luego de un juicio presumiblemente injusto, la Sra. Nasrin Sotoudeh, defensora de los derechos humanos, fue sentenciada a 11 años de prisión, la prohibición de ejercer su profesión de abogada y a salir del país por 20 años.

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Nasrin Sotoudeh es una destacada abogada de derechos humanos, que se dedica especialmente al trabajo con prisioneros jóvenes que fueron condenados a muerte y prisioneros de conciencia. Entre sus clientes se cuentan Sirin Ebadi, premio Nobel, y un varios prisioneros políticos que quedaron bajo custodia durante los disturbios que siguieron a las elecciones presidenciales disputadas en Irán en junio del 2009.

Asimismo, es integrante del Centro de Defensores de los Derechos Humanos y de la Sociedad para la Protección de los Derechos de la Niñez.

Human rights defender Ms Nasrin Sotoudeh has been sentenced to 11 years in prison, and banned from practicing as a lawyer and leaving the country for 20 years after an allegedly unfair trial.

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Nasrin Sotoudeh is a prominent human rights lawyer, who in particular has worked with juvenile prisoners facing the death penalty as well as prisoners of conscience; her past clients have included Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi as well as a number of political prisoners who were taken into custody during the unrest that followed the disputed Iranian presidential election in June 2009.

She is also a member of the Defenders of Human Rights Centre and the Society for the Protection of the Rights of the Child. Nasrin Sotoudeh has been the subject of a previous Front Line Urgent Appeal dated 8 September 2010.

On 9 January 2011, Nasrin Sotoudeh's lawyers were informed that she had been sentenced by the 26th Branch of the Revolutionary Court to 11 years in prison and banned from both working as a lawyer and leaving Iran for 20 years.

Numerous individual human rights defenders and organisations have been subjected to police and judicial harassment, ill-treatment, searches and raids carried out at their offices and homes, since the unrest which followed the Presidential Elections of 19 December 2010.

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Most of the searches have been carried out in relation to a criminal investigation opened by the Minsk Department of Interior under Article 293 parts 1 and 2 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus (participation and organisation of mass disorder) which is punishable by up to 15 years in prison. This investigation aims at establishing the involvement of human rights defenders in the political unrest.

On 19 December 2010, Mr Aleh Gulak, Chair of the Belarusian Helsinki Committee (BHC), who was observing the opposition rally, was arrested despite explaining the reasons for his presence. He was brought to a temporary detention facility where was forced to spend three hours standing with his face to a wall. On 20 December at midday, he was brought to court where he was accused of participation in an unauthorised rally.

En las últimas dos semanas, el Sr. Patrick Naagbanton, defensor de los derechos humanos, ha sido víctima de una serie de amenazas de muerte. El defensor es Coordinador del Centro para el Ambiente, los Derechos Humanos y el Desarrollo (Centre for Environment, Human Rights and Development – CEHRD) en Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria.

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El 30 de diciembre de 2010, Patrick Naagbanton había sido abordado por dos individuos en las oficinas del CEHRD, en Eleme, Rivers State, los que lo amenazaron con “ocuparse de él”. Según se ha informado, los mismos dos individuos también amenazaron a un integrante del personal de la administración del Centro.

El 31 de diciembre de 2010, aproximadamente a las 23:00 horas, Patrick Naagbanton recibió otro llamado telefónico, en el que su interlocutor le exigía entregue una suma de dinero el día 1 de enero. Al día siguiente, recibió otro llamado en el que lo citaron en una capilla local en Ogoni, Rivers State, y lo amenazaron con matarlo si no se presentaba. A esta amenaza la siguió otra, por teléfono, dos horas más tarde.