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'Nasrin': Film Review

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In a video from 2018, a woman stands at a busy traffic intersection in Tehran, takes off the headscarf mandated by law and waves it in protest.

As we see in the stirring documentary Nasrin, other women follow suit in the next weeks. Today the human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh is in Iran's notoriously brutal Evin prison for, among other politically-charged reasons, defending one of those women.

Such basic facts would be chilling enough. Nasrin has spent nearly 20 years fighting for the rights of women and children, and against the death penalty, acts that led to her imprisonment from 2010-2013.

In March 2019 she was sentenced again, this time to 38 and a half years and 148 lashes for offenses including "propaganda against the state." The.

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