Monday, January 10, 2011

Iran: Nasrin Sotudeh condemned to eleven years in prison

 She represented the opposition, which has arrested the regime - now known, the Iranian lawyer Nasrin Sotudeh himself in jail. A court imposed a sentence of eleven years and a long prohibition against the running mate of Nobel Peace Prize winner Ebadi. Tehran - The Iranian regime's harassment against human rights defenders and government critics continues unabated: A court has sentenced the prominent human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotudeh to eleven years in prison.


The judges had informed the defense of his wife on Sunday that had been imposed on Sotudeh eleven years in prison and a 20-year career and leaving the territory, said Sotudehs husband, Resa Chandan, on Monday the news agency. The 45-year-olds were his statements that "attacking national security", "propaganda against the state leadership" as well as membership in the "heart of a champion of human rights", a human rights group of Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi, has been accused of.

It is at these points have been found guilty, said her husband Sotudeh, who has two children, was arrested in early September. The lawyer representing juvenile offenders on death row and the opposition, which were in connection with the protests against the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was arrested in June 2009.

After the mass demonstrations, numerous journalists, human rights activists, lawyers and political opponents of the government were sentenced to imprisonment. Hundreds of demonstrators against long prison sentences imposed by courts. Some were sentenced to death. Sharp criticism of the sentencing Sotudehs exercised according to the BBC, the New York human rights group International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran "(ICHRI).

"This is a clear political verdict, which aims to prevent Iran's leading defender of human rights to their work," a spokesperson.

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