Human rights defender Nesrin Sotudeh in Iran was sentenced to 11 years imprisonment disqualified from her profession for 20 years.

In the interview with AFP, Sotudeh’s husband Reza Xandan expressed that the lawyers reported Sotudeh was sentenced to 11 years imprisonment, disqualified from her profession for 20 years and will be brought a ban on leaving the country.

The 45-year-old lawyer is accused of "action against national security, propaganda against the regime and being a member of Human Rights Defenders Center" which was established by Nobel Peace Prize-winning lawyer Þirin Ebadi.

Sotudeh advocated the opponents who were arrested during the protest actions against the polemical elections where , Mahmud Ahmedinecad was re-elected in June 2009. Sotudeh had previously advocated the prisoners sentenced to death. Sotudeh was arrested in September 2010.

Translation: Berna Ozgencil