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Nasrin Sotudeh, a human rights activist imprisoned in Iran, ended her hunger strike after almost 50 days. "Because of her critical condition, Nasrin stopped her hunger strike yesterday," her husband Reza Chandan tweeted today.
Previously, Sotudeh had to be treated for five days in a hospital in Tehran for a heart failure. She was released on Thursday and taken back to the notorious Evin Prison. With the hunger strike,
the 57-year-old lawyer and women's rights activist wanted to protest against the prison conditions of political prisoners during the coronavirus pandemic. According to Chandan, her health has been worrying for the past few days. Sotudeh is accused of "subversive propaganda".
There is different information about her prison sentence. According to her husband, she was sentenced by a revolutionary court in 2018 to 33 years and six months in prison and 148 lashes. She must serve at least twelve years from imprisonment.
But later there was also talk of 38 years. Sotudeh had denied all charges against her in court. She only engage peacefully for women's rights and against the death penalty in the country. She and her husband are among the most renowned human rights activists in Iran.
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