By AFP TEHRAN Jailed Iranian rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, who has been held in solitary confinement and reportedly began a hunger strike last month, is in "good health," Iran's top human rights official said Tuesday. "Based on reports we have received, she is in good health and has met with her family," Mohammad Javad Larijani, head of the ...

A selection of the latest news stories and editorials published in Iranian news outlets, compiled by AEI Critical Threats Project Iran Analyst Will Fulton and Iran Intern Amir Toumaj, with contributor John Lesnewich. Politics Expediency Discernment Council Secretary Mohsen Rezaei warned, From the aspect of domestic oil consumption, the countrys ...

The move comes just ahead of President Rouhani's first-ever address to the UN, and is being seen as a message to the West that he is ready to engage. Irantoday made a surprise release of nearly a dozen prominent political prisoners, including award-winning human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, on the eve ofPresident Hassan Rouhani'sfirst-ever address ...

Prominent Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh has been released two years into her six year prison sentence, according to her husband. At least seven more political prisoners have also been reportedly set free. "It's not a temporary release, it's freedom. They put her in a car and dropped her off at the house,"Sotoudeh's husbandReza Khandan ...

(Reuters) - JailedIranian lawyer and human rights activist Nasrin Sotoudeh was temporarily released from prison on Thursday after being incarcerated for more than two years, the opposition Kaleme website reported. Sotoudeh is serving out a six-year jail sentence after being arrested in September 2010 and convicted of spreading propaganda and conspiring ...

TEHRAN -- Jailed Iranian human rights attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh has halted her hunger strike after the Iranian judiciary agreed to drop a travel ban against her daughter, her husband said Tuesday. Sotoudeh had endured nearly seven weeks without food, drinking salt and sugar solutions, to protest her 12-year-old daughter Mehrave being banned from leaving ...