Iranian human rights lawyer sentenced to 38 years in jail and 148 lashes

According to her lawyer, Ms Sotoudeh was arrested in June and charged with spying, propaganda and insulting Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei before being sentenced in Tehran's revolutionary court.

The additional 33 years came just days after Iran appointed a new head of the judiciary - Ebrahim Raisi, a hardline cleric who is a protégé of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.Ms Sotoudeh is well-known for her work representing opposition activists, including women prosecuted for removing their mandatory headscarf, and has been awarded the European Parliament's Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought.

“Iranian authorities apparently decided to follow up International Women’s Day by sentencing a well-known and highly regarded women’s human rights defender to an inconceivably draconian sentence,” Michael Page, deputy Middle East director at Human Rights Watch, said.

This is what happens when you let 'religious' fruitnuts control a country.

How Bloody Disgusting, that's what happens when the Iranian Government doesn't like it when the Truth is told!

Typo 138 years?

Such harness, hard to believe we all belong to human race.

Opression; they aren’t fooling anybody with a sentence this harsh

How lucky we are here in Australia. 9NewsAUS

Islam, what a wonderful Cult to be part of.

what did she do to get that did she kill 100 people?

Meanwhile, U.S allies and 'good friends' such as Saudi Arabia merely dismember and behead (on a weekly basis) their activists and dissenters. Where's amnesty or on that story?

Meanwhile, U.S allies and 'good friends' such as Saudi Arabia merely dismember and behead (on a weekly basis) their dissenters. Or the Israeli Army (IDF) sniping young Palestinian kids on the Gaza strip. Tell that story SBS and Amnesty International.

Wish we could do that with our noisy activists

This is a deterrent sentence because the mullahs are terrified of the growing power of women.

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