Iranian authorities have arrested a prominent lawyer and human rights defender as she attended the funeral of a teenage girl who died after a disputed metro incident, her husband said Monday. The arrest of 60-year-old Nasrin Sotoudeh took place Sunday in Tehran during the funeral of 17-year-old Armita Garawand, who died a day earlier after…
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Human rights defender and prominent lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh was attending the funeral of Armita Garawand who died in Iran metro after possible altercation with its morality police.
Armita Geravand, 17, had been taken to Tehran s Fajr Hospital on October 1 after an incident on the metro which left her in a coma. She died on Saturday after nearly a month in intensive care.