How ironic that there would even be a "Human Rights" lawyer practicing in Iran and one who is a woman to boot. There is no irony in the fact that she will be spending 11 years in prison for insulting Iran and questionable morals. Imagine that happening here.
Good thing Oklahoma judge Vicki Miles-LaGrange has made us safe from sharia!
From AKI Jan 10
Tehran, 10 Jan. (AKI) - Prominent Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh has been sentenced to 11 years in jail, according to her family. She was also banned from practising law and travelling abroad for 20 years, her family said.
The New-York based International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran deplored Sotoudeh's sentence as a "gross miscarriage of justice” and said that it should be overturned by an appeals court.
The judge sentenced her to five years in prison on charge of “acting against national security,” another five years for “not wearing hijab (the face-covering Islamic veil) during a videotaped message,” and one year for “propaganda against the regime,” The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said.
Reza Khandan, Sotoudeh's husband, said she was also found guilty of membership of the Human Rights Defenders' Centre, a group headed by Iranian Nobel peace prize winner Shirin Ebadi.
Reza Khandan, Sotoudeh’s husband, in an interview with the Campaign described the ruling as “highly strange and unjust.”
Nothing strange about Iran crushing dissent and speech they consider to be "propaganda against the regime"
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