Nasrin Sotoudeh

A human rights lawyer and prominent voice of conscience, Sotoudeh was briefly rearrested and beaten in October 2023 while attending a funeral of a slain teenage girl. She had been previously released from prison in 2021 on a medical furlough from serving a combined 38-year sentence handed down in 2019. In 2020, she went on a 46-day hunger strike to protest the detention of political prisoners amid the pandemic.