9. Calls for the immediate release of prominent human rights lawyer, Nasrin Sotoudeh, and for all charges against her to be dropped;

L. whereas Nasrin Sotoudeh, a prominent human rights lawyer widely respected for her efforts on behalf of juveniles facing the death penalty and for her defence of prisoners of conscience, was arrested on 4 September 2010 on charges of 'propaganda against the state' and 'collusion and gathering with the aim of acting against national security',

whereas family law (notably marriage and divorce law) often puts women in a weaker legal and financial position, and whereas courts sometimes add to the inequalities between men and women by applying family law on the basis of traditional role models instead of equal rights,

It should contain one or more items from a scheme containing values for civil law, commercial law, family law, insolvency law, private international law, criminal law, EU law, administrative law, tax law, international public law and constitutional law, and may contain a more specific description of the field of law.

The fourth part of the Council report deals with family law and does not need to be summarised in detail here as family law is outside of the scope of the Commission's Communication.

7. Calls on the Commission to have a study carried out on the consequences of the formal and informal application of the family law of States with fundamentalist leanings, particularly for women belonging to the migrant communities concerned in the Member States, considers it necessary that rights derived from the family law of the Member States should prevail over those of the countries of origin, calls on the Commission and Member States therefore, on the basis of that study, to take the necessary steps to protect women, in particular, against the adverse impact of the application of the family law of the countries of origin;