Meyrāveh Khəndān, the daughter of Nasrīn Sotoudeh, an Iranian human rights lawyer and defender, on Monday the sixth of Mehr, received the Václav Havel Human Rights Award in Strasbourg on her mother’s behalf at a ceremony.

Sotoudeh, who is currently in Iran, in a video message shown at the event, expressed hope that the sun of freedom will one day shine on our country as well.

By referring to Havel’s ideas—who was a Czech thinker and one of the prominent figures in the struggle against the Czechoslovak communist government—she said she hopes that one day Iranians will no longer be forced to take their daily carrots and greens out from among the “government’s lie posters” that have covered the city.