Iran has sentenced women's rights activist Shiva Nazar-Ahari to six years in jail on charges including "warring against God", an offence that can carry the death penalty, Sunday newspapers quoted her lawyer as saying.

She is the latest among the scores of activists picked up amid the mass protests that followed hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's controversial re-election in June last year to receive a stiff jail sentence.

At least 10 of those arrested have been given death sentences.

Nazar-Ahari "has been sentenced to three and a half years in jail for Moharebeh (warring against God), two years for conspiracy to commit a crime and six months for propaganda against the regime," her lawyer Mohammad Sharif said.

The court ordered her to serve the jail term in the town of Izeh, 800 kilometres (500 miles) from her home city of Tehran, Sharif said.