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February 16, 2010
RAHANA Civil Rights – Nasarin Sotoodeh, a prominent rights lawyer said that 10 days ago she received 2 SMSs over an interview she gave following the execution of one her clients, Arash Rahmanipour. The SMS informed her that as a result of interviews she gave to foreign media organization, despite being warned by the authorities, her phone service would be disconnected for 2 months. Sotoodeh was asked to contact the Telecom Company after two months.

According to the Feminist School, after the phone was disconnected, Sotoodeh’s elderly parents were handed an invitation which was not issued by judicial authorities and later on her sister, who owned the disconnected mobile phone, was asked to report to the Narmak police precinct. After reporting to the police precinct today, Sotoodeh’s sister was asked to leave her identification papers at the precinct as guarantee. As soon as she found out about her sister’s ordeal, Sotoodeh went to the precinct and asked to see a warrant. After refusing to show a warrant and when Sotoodeh told them that she was the only person who used the disconnected mobile phone, the officers started to interrogate her. She was asked about her foreign trips and whether any of her family members had been arrested after the election. Sotoodeh refused to answer the unwarranted questions and voiced her objection to the treatment of her family members. She was then asked to undertake to report to police authorities if summoned, but she refused to sign the agreement as there was no legal justification for it, and told the officers she would only report to the authorities if summoned by a legal warrant.