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Sotoudeh has represented opposition activists and women who removed mandatory headscarf. Nasrin Sotoudeh, an internationally renowned human rights lawyer jailed in Iran, was handed a new sentence on Monday which her husband said was 38 years in prison and 148 lashes. Sotoudeh, who has represented opposition activists including women prosecuted for removing their mandatory headscarf, was arrested in June and charged with spying, spreading propaganda and insulting Iran's supreme leader, her lawyer said. She also was jailed in 2010 for spreading propaganda and conspiring to harm state security — charges she denied ... The news comes days after Iran appointed...

TEHRAN - Iran sentenced a prominent human rights lawyer to 11 years in prison on Sunday, highlighting an intensifying crackdown on lawyers that appears focused on people connected with 2003 Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi. The court also ruled that the lawyer, 47-year-old Nasrin Sotoudeh, is not allowed to practice law or leave the country for the next 20 years, her husband, Reza Khandan, said. Khandan said he himself was summoned to court this week, for reasons he didn't know. The Parliament news Web site, an outlet of members of parliament critical of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's administration, confirmed Sotoudeh's...