TEHRAN - The Iranian lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, known for its commitment to human rights and because it represents the Nobel peace laureate Shirin Ebadi, was sentenced to 11 years in prison. He told the family of the lawyer, who has been forbidden to do business and to leave the country for twenty years.The judges' said yesterday that my wife was sentenced to 11 years in prison, 20 of disqualification from the legal profession, and the prohibition to leave the country, "said the woman's husband, Reza Khandan. The lawyer, who was arrested last Sept. 20, has been recognized as "guilty of acts against the regime and to belong to the center of Human Rights Defenders, a group led by Nobel peace laureate Shirin Ebadi.
The charges against Sotoudeh, mother of two children, are based primarily on interviews with women from a foreign media concerning the detention of some of his clients arrested in the protests that followed the presidential elections of June 2009. Sotoudeh was the legal representative of dell'oppostizione activists and politicians, as well as Ebadi.
The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran (ICHRI), an NGO based in New York, called the verdict "a miscarriage of justice", announcing the appeal. "Nasrin Sotoudeh has not broken the law, but was arrested because he entered the Iranian and international law in a judicial system that is based on the violation of human rights," the spokesman said Hadi Ghaemi dell'ICHRI.
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