The husband of a human rights attorney in Iran recently announced that his wife has been sentenced to 38 years in prison and 148 lashes, the Christian Headlines website reports today (March 19, 2019).
Nasrin Sotoudeh, 55, faces spending most of the rest of her life in prison and an excruciating lashing simply because she defended seven women who had been arrested for protesting Iran's hijab law by removing their head coverings in public.
Sotoudeh's husband, Reza Kahndan, said that she faced charges of assembly and collusion against national security, propaganda against the state, encouraging corruption and prostitution, appearing at the judiciary without Islamic hijab, disturbing public peace and order, and publishing falsehoods with the intent to disturb public opinion.
The Revolutionary Court in Tehran tried her in absentia when she refused to appear because she could not choose her own attorney.
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