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Iranian lawyer detained incommunicado for months is condemned in absentia to 33 years of imprisonment and 148 lashes.

March 12th, 2019.

Iranian lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh is famous for having defended women who had taken off their hijab to protest against the obligation to wear it. Due to her commitment, she received in 2012 the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, awarded by the European Parliament; and, in 2018, the Ludovic Trarieux International Human Rights prize.

Nasrin Sotoudeh was arrested at her home on June 13th, 2018; she is detained incommunicado in the Evin prison (Tehran) since then.

On Monday 11th, Judge Mohammad Moghiseh (Head of the 28th branch of the Tehran Revolutionary Court) declared to the semi-official news agency Isna that Nasrin Sotoudeh had been condemned to 7 years of imprisonment for “collusion against the system” (5 years) and “insult to the leader” (2 years).

Yet, on the same day, Reza Khandan, Ms Sotoudeh’s husband, declared on Facebook that the lawyer had actually been convicted of seven charges and condemned to 33 years of imprisonment and 148 lashes. This information was transmitted to Nasrin Sotoudeh by the Office for the implementation of sentences of the Evin prison, where she is detained. [...]