Nasrin Sotoudeh sentenced to 38 years in prison and 148 lashes in Iran

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This woman is a human rights lawyer who has worked tirelessly for women's rights and defended women who protested wearing the headscarf. It's so horrific what is happening to her.

www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-middle-east-47531312

www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-middle-east-47531312

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Utterly horrifying.

Horribly shocking.
What a brave woman she has been. Wishing her every hope for clemency.

That's horrendous

Absolutely appalling. I hope the international community are able to apply some pressure on her behalf.

bastards

i'm not sure what else to say

She had no hope if she wasn’t even allowed to attend one of her own trials. Its so shocking what has happened to her. Even if she is let out early, as I do hope, she will still have those terrible wounds from being lashed forever.

She's been jailed before, she is so immensely brave for continuing her work with a target on her back.

How awful. That poor woman.

Thanks for alerting us, OP.

If anyone's interested, Amnesty are campaigning for her release.

This sample letter is from last week, so I imagine there will be an updated one shortly, now the sentence has been announced
www.amnesty.org/download/Documents/MDE1399522019ENGLISH.pdf

More about her on the Amnesty site:
2019
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2019/03/iran-shocking-33-year-prison-term-and-148-lashes-for-womens-rights-defender-nasrin-sotoudeh/

2012
www.amnesty.org/en/documents/mde13/067/2012/en/

She's been jailed before, and indeed on hunger strike, because of her work.

Thank you for those links Perking.

Attitudes seem to be changing in Iran, men have joined the hijab protests.

www.facebook.com/StealthyFreedom/videos/294118281257848/

An outrageous sentence. She's a brave woman.

Horrendous. Such a courageous woman. She featured in the under-cover movie by banned Iranian film maker( Jafar Pannahi), called 'Taxi Tehran'; in which the film maker drives a taxi through Tehran, picking up various passengers. Good viewing.

I feel sick. This is just grotesque.

Barbaric bastards.

I felt sick when I read it yesterday.

She featured in the under-cover movie by banned Iranian film maker( Jafar Pannahi), called 'Taxi Tehran';

I didn't realise it was her...thank you for posting this, I'm going to watch the film again tonight in her honour, and for the women she fights for too.

She’s so brave.

Oh my god, I can't believe this. I'm horrified The brutality.

So incredibly brave. Horrific punishment.

And Britain is still hand in hand with this regime.... If we ever get Penny Moraunt to answer our questions, perhaps she could come up with what the Govt could do to get this woman out.

Jesus this poor woman. Thank you for posting about her case.

I am pleased to see Amnesty doing good campaigning work on this. This type of case is exactly what they should be leveraging on.

Agree Chatty. This kind of thing is what they were set up to do, and what most of the people donating expect them to do. not pushing their own dodgy political agendas.

Agreed Chattyand Ereshkigal good to see Amnesty stepping up.