Jailed Iranian opposition lawyer on hunger strike
A prominent Iranian human rights lawyer has gone on a hunger strike to protest her detention in solitary confinement on suspicion of spreading propaganda against the ruling system, her husband said Wednesday.
Nasrin Sotoudeh told her husband in a phone call from Evin Prison, north of Iran's capital, that she began a hunger strike on Sept. 25, he said. Sotoudeh's arrest last month could signal a widening of Iran's crackdown on the pro-reform opposition that took the streets in protest after the June 2009 presidential election. (AP)
