Eleven years in prison for an Iranian human rights

The Iranian judiciary has sentenced the lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh to eleven years in prison for his action in support of human rights, expanding the list of persons convicted after severe disturbances that followed the disputed re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The Iranian lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, arrested in September 2010, was sentenced to eleven years in prison and twenty years' disqualification from his job and leaving Iran, said her husband, Reza Khandan, Monday, January 10 .

She has twenty days to appeal. Ms. Sotoudeh was convicted of "actions against national security, propaganda against the regime and belonging to the Centre advocates for human rights" in Iran, a group of human rights founded by Nobel Peace Laureate Shirin Ebadi, "he added. Ms. Ebadi became one of the bugbears of the Iranian regime was demonstrated in December before the UN's European headquarters in Geneva to demand the release of Ms.

Sotoudeh, then hunger strike to protest against his arrest and the conditions detention. Long committed to the defense of youth sentenced to death for crimes committed when they were minors, Ms. Sotoudeh, 45, has defended many opponents of the Iranian government arrested after the disputed re-election of Mr Ahmadinejad in June 2009.

The outcome of the vote, marred by massive fraud by the opposition to reform, has caused several months of demonstrations throughout the country, severely repressed by the power that has arrested thousands of people, and condemned hundreds. During this period, Nasrin Sotoudeh represented Shirin Ebadi, who left Iran on the eve of the vote in 2009.

She also defended many unknowns arrested during the demonstrations. Sotoudeh's husband said his wife had been accused of giving interviews to foreign media. "She cited the case of her defense and occasionally informed the public of certain procedural irregularities. She has insulted anyone and was always moderate in his statements.

This is not a crime," he said. France has called for his release and that of Shiva Nazar-Ahari, another activist of Human Rights condemned Saturday on appeal to four years in prison and 74 lashes for being an "enemy of God" (moharebeh " ).

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