Even loving your parents is a crime — under the brutal rule of the Iranian regime. Nima was only three years old when his mother, human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, was sent to prison. Her “crime”: fighting for women’s rights. Later, the regime also arrested his father — as punishment for Nasrin for refusing to wear a hijab.
During a visit to the prison, their 17-year-old son Nima was brutally attacked by prison guards in Evin after protesting against a sudden change in visitation rules. The guards threw him to the ground, beat him, slammed his head against a staircase, and then dragged him through the prison—bloody, handcuffed and humiliated.
Love is stronger than the Iranian regime
In my speech at the European Parliament, I addressed this terrible attack. It shows how relentlessly people like Nasrin and her family resist the Iranian regime. Nasrin keeps fighting. And we must stand with her in solidarity. For Nima, for Reza, and for all the families destroyed by this regime. Until the mullahs open the doors of Evin, until no more child is forced to grow up in the shadow of prison walls in Iran.
My plenary speech:
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