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Nasrin Sotoudeh
Sign in to saveAlso known as Nasrin Sotoodeh, Nasrin Sotuda, Nasrin Aghajan, Nasrin Aghajan Sotoudeh, Nasrin Sotoudeh Langarudi
Iranian lawyer and human right activist
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 2
Top works
- Women, Life, Freedom
- Letters from Prison
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Langrud, Iran
Known for
- Taxi — Woman with roses2015
via TMDB
Key facts
- Born
- 1963 (age 62 – 63), Tehran , Pahlavi Iran
- Education
- Master's degree in International Law
- Alma mater
- Shahid Beheshti University
- Occupations
- Lawyer, human rights activist
- Spouse
- Reza Khandan ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1995 )
- Children
- 2, including Mehraveh Khandan
- Awards
- Freedom to Write Award (2011), Sakharov Prize (2012), Right Livelihood Award (2020)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- נסרין המלכה
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Iran
- Place of birth
- Tehran Province
- Occupation
- political activist
- Educated at
- Shahid Beheshti University
- Languages spoken
- Persian
- Religion
- Twelver Shiism
- Award
- Civil Courage Prize
- Field of work
- human rights
- Image
- Nasrin Sotoudeh.jpg
- Significant event
- prisoner of conscience
Show 5 more facts
- date of birth
- 1963-05-30
- Commons category
- Nasrin Sotoudeh
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- BBC 100 Women Edit-a-thon
- name in native language
- نسرین ستوده
- place of detention
- Evin Prison
Sources (6)
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Encyclopedic overview
Nasrin Sotoudeh Langarudi (Persian: نسرین ستوده لنگرودی; born 1963) is an Iranian human rights lawyer known for her defense of activists, opposition politicians, and individuals facing human rights violations. She has represented Iranian opposition activists and politicians detained after the disputed June 2009 presidential elections and prisoners sentenced to death for crimes committed when they were minors. Her clients have included journalist Isa Saharkhiz, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi, and Heshmat Tabarzadi. She has also represented women arrested for appearing in public without a hijab, which is a punishable offense in Iran. Her work has led to several arrests and periods of prison in Iran, and punishment by lashing, the latest being in April 2026, during the 2026 Iran war.
Sotoudeh was the subject of Nasrin, a 2020 documentary filmed in secret in Iran about her life and work.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Nasrin Sotoudeh” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.