Filmmaker Jeff Kaufman Gives Update On Detained Iranian Human Rights Lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh
deadline.comDocumentary director Jeff Kaufman has given an update on the situation for detained award-winning Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh following an in-depth call with her husband Reza Khandan.
Kaufman and his casting director and producer wife Marcia Ross became close with Khandan while making their 2020 Olivia Colman-narrated documentary Nasrin.
The immersive work follows Sotoudeh’s battle to defend human rights in the face of abuses by Iran’s hardline Islamic Republic regime. “This morning we had an in-depth conversation with Nasrin’s indefatigable husband Reza Khandan.
He authorized us to release this update,” wrote Kaufman in a note sent out on Monday evening. Sotoudeh was among a number of women arrested at the funeral on October 29 of tragic Tehran teenager Armita Geravand, who went into a coma and died after allegedly being assaulted by the country’s morality police for not wearing Iran’s obligatory veil.
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