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) -Irancriticized the European Union on Sunday for giving its prize for human rights and freedom of thought to two Iranians, a lawyer and a filmmaker, who were cut off from the outside world for defying the country's leadership. The European Union awarded human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh and filmmaker Jafar Panahi with its Sakharov Prize ...