Writing these few lines is only to say that we know Nasrin Sotoudeh, dear, is on a hunger strike. Nasrin Sotoudeh is a human rights activist and lawyer, a member of the Human Rights Defenders Association, the One Million Signatures Campaign to Change Discriminatory Laws Against Women, and the Association for the Protection of Children. She has represented many cases of human rights activists, women’s rights activists, child victims of abuse, and children facing execution. In 2008, Sotoudeh won the International Human Rights Award from the International Human Rights Organization. On September 4, 2010, she was arrested. This lawyer was sentenced to 11 years in prison, 20 years of deprivation of the right to practice law, and 20 years of prohibition from leaving the country on charges of “acting against national security, collusion, and propaganda against the system, and membership in the Human Rights Defenders Association.” She was

Also, let us remember that the beloved soul of Ahmad Qabel is no longer among us. He was a religious researcher and a critic of the Islamic Republic’s political activists, and had a license of ijtihad from Ayatollah Hussein Ali Montazeri. He was one of the staunch critics of Ali Khamenei, the leader of Iran, and had written and published several letters to him. In 2001, he was arrested and after enduring 125 days of solitary confinement in Evin prison, he was released on bail. He was charged with actions against national security, insulting the leader, and propaganda against the system. On December 20, 2009, while traveling from Mashhad to Qom for the funeral of Ayatollah Montazeri, he was arrested again on the way in Neyshabur. On June 11, 2010, after enduring approximately 170 days in prison, he was released on bail of 500 million rials

In Syria, the Assad regime continues its atrocities and there is little hope for peace in this country. Elderly UN veteran Akbar Ibrahim is also trying, without any hope, to find a glimmer of hope to bring the parties to the negotiating table. The international community continues to act passively and only watches the daily crimes in Aleppo and other cities in Syria. Undoubtedly, the role of the Islamic Republic, Hezbollah, Russia, China, and the incomprehensible silence of Western countries in fueling the conflicts and civil war in Syria cannot be denied.

We wrote these to say that this peace line is dedicated to the great souls of Ahmad Qabel and Nasrin Sotoudeh, always steadfast and admirable, and to all human rights activists and observers around the world, and to the innocent and tired people of Syria.

In hope of better days and universal and everlasting peace.