The European Criminal Association joins the call and signs the statement to take concrete and urgent action in the case of Nasrin Sotoudeh, prominent and well-known Iranian lawyer and human rights defender.

On Sunday, 29 October, the media broke the news that she had been arrested while attending the funeral of Armita Garavand, the 16-year-old girl who died after 28 days in a coma following her arrest by the infamous Morality Police in the Tehran metro.

She was taken along with other arrested women to the Vozara detention centre, the same one in which Mahsa Amini died last year.

She was scheduled to be heard in her case on Monday, 30 October, at Evin prison, but was not brought to court because she refused to wear a veil.

She was then taken to Qarchak prison, known for its poor conditions of detention, and is currently on a hunger strike in protest, refusing both essential medication for her health and visits.

Click here to read the whole Statement.