Nasrin Sotoudeh, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Nasrin Sotoudeh

prominent human rights female lawyer in Iran

Date of Birth: 03-Apr-1963

Place of Birth: Tehran, Tehran Province, Iran

Profession: lawyer, human rights activist, journalist, essayist

Nationality: Iran

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Nasrin Sotoudeh (also spelled Sotoodeh; Persian: ????? ??????) is a human rights lawyer in Iran.
She has represented imprisoned Iranian opposition activists and politicians following the disputed June 2009 Iranian presidential elections as well as prisoners sentenced to death for crimes committed when they were minors.
Her clients have included journalist Isa Saharkhiz, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi, and Heshmat Tabarzadi, the head of the banned opposition group National Democratic Front.
She has also represented women arrested for appearing in public without a hijab, which is a punishable offence in Iran.Sotoudeh was arrested in September 2010 on charges of spreading propaganda and conspiring to harm state security and was imprisoned in solitary confinement in Evin Prison.
In January 2011, Iranian authorities sentenced Sotoudeh to 11 years in prison, in addition to barring her from practising law and from leaving the country for 20 years.
Later that year, an appeals court reduced her sentence to six years and her practice ban to ten years. In June 2018 she was again arrested, and on 12 March 2019 sentenced to jail in Tehran, after being charged with several national security-related offences.
While a Tehran judge told the Islamic Republic News Agency she was imprisoned for seven years, it was reported by other sources that the maximum sentence included 10 years in prison and 148 lashes, along with six other verdicts and sentences totalling 38 years bundled together.