A/HRC/28/70 21 October 2014 at the Bar Association in Tehran to protest the ruling, and in protest of the general state of legal representation in Iran. She was arrested and detained for a few hours on 25 October and again on 10 December 2014.34 Ms. Sotoudeh was originally sentenced to six years in prison on charges of spreading “propaganda against the system” and “acting against national security” in September 2010 and was released without formal pardon or furlough on 18 September 2013. 38. In September 2010 Ms. Sotoudeh was charged and sentenced to six years in prison for spreading “propaganda against the system” and “acting against national security.” She was released without formal pardon or furlough on 18 September 2013. Allegedly, under pressure from intelligence agencies, on October 18 2014, Branch 2 of the Lawyers Disciplinary Court at the Iranian Bar Association sentenced Ms. Sotoudeh to a three-year ban from practicing law. On 21 October 2014 Ms. Sotoudeh began a sit-in in protest of her sentence and the general state of the Iranian legal profession. She was arrested and detained for a few hours on both 25 October 2014 and 10 December 2014.35 E. Detention conditions and treatment of prisoners Inadequate segregation and access to medical treatment: Urumia, Minab Evin, Tabriz Rajae’i Shahr, Karoun, Dezfoul, Yasouj, and Evin Prisons 39. Ward 8 of Evin Prison is reportedly overcrowded and prisoners allegedly suffer from unsanitary conditions and poor nutrition. The maximum prisoner capacity for Ward 8 is 500, but at least 800 individuals are reportedly detained there. The lack of space forces many prisoners to sleep on the floor and in the hallways. 40. Many prisoners are reportedly deprived of their right to receive proper medical treatment in medical clinics and hospitals outside the prison despite urgently needing medical care. In 2013 the Supreme Leader endorsed Eid Al-Fetr (“Amnesty Pledge”) which was drafted by the Head of the Judiciary. The Pledge stated that the remaining sentences of prisoners diagnosed by the Medical Examiner Office’s Commission as suffering from serious chronic diseases would be pardoned.36 However, despite the Pledge, many prisoners diagnosed as suffering from serious chronic diseases remain incarcerated. 41. In November 2014, prisoners at Minab (Hormozgan Province) and Urmia (West Azerbaijan Province) Prisons embarked on hunger strikes, calling for immediate access to medical care, and for the separation of prisoners by crimes committed. Prisoners were also reportedly protesting alleged threats to expedite the implementation of the execution sentences of several protesters — including the death sentence of convicted juvenile offender Mr. Saman Nasim — as well as threats of “prison-in-exile” transfers and sentences, threats to add new charges to case files, and threats to arrest family members.37 42. On 20 November 2014, at least 24 Kurdish prisoners in Ward 12 of Urmia Central Prison (in the West Azerbaijan Province) reportedly began a hunger strike protesting the insufficient segregation of prisoners that committed civil crimes from those that committed violent ones. Reportedly, prisoners who participated in the hunger strike were summoned to 34 35 36 37 32 http://www.pen-international.org/newsitems/iran-prominent-human-rights-lawyer-nasrin-sotoudeharrested/. http://www.pen-international.org/newsitems/iran-prominent-human-rights-lawyer-nasrin-sotoudeharrested/. http://isna.ir/fa/news/92051709891. http://www.amnesty.org/en/for-media/press-releases/iran-alleged-juvenile-offender-among-10hunger-strikers-threatened-immediat.