THE AUSTRALIAN: Nasrin Sotoudeh has spent 105 days in solitary confinement and is so weak from her hunger strike that she can barely finish sentences.
The leading Iranian human rights lawyer has nonetheless issued a declaration of defiance from her prison cell.
"If you are going to hell, then go like a man," she told The Times in a message sent from Tehran's infamous Evin prison via her husband, Reza Khandan. "Let them give me a harsh sentence because that brings a person honour."
Mr Khandan, who risked reprisals for speaking to a foreign journalist, said that he was proud of his wife and supported her stand, whatever the price.
"I very much fear for her life, but I don't know what I can do to save her," he said.
Ms Sotoudeh, 47, the mother of two young children, is becoming the latest symbol of the regime's barbarity. >>> Martin Fletcher | The Times | Saturday, December 18, 2010
