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Message from Kweku Mandela - Nelson Mandela's grandson - to Nasrin Sotoudeh


Four months after Nasrin was released from her first three-year prison sentence in Evin, Nelson Mandela died in December 2013.

 
Nasrin and her fellow women's rights activists gathered to leave flowers in front of the South African embassy to remember Mandela and celebrate his lifelong struggle for freedom and fight against apartheid.

 

Today, his grandson, after hearing about Nasrin’s hunger strike, has written the following letter to her; a woman whose fight is at home, but her message is global.

 

Dear Nasrin,

We have never met but I humbly want thank you for honoring the memory of my grandfather Nelson Mandela.
 

You and your fellow citizens are breathing life into our collective dream for freedom, equality and justice for all.

 
I pray for your health and for your release.


You don’t stand alone and your shared vision for our future reverberates across the world to the shores of Africa and Beyond.


I hope to meet you soon and send you love.

 

Humbly,
Kweku

 

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