Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh has been sentenced to 38 years in prison and will receive 148 lashes, according to her husband, Reza Khandan. Khandan posted on Facebook that Sotoudeh was sentenced in two separate cases — the first one resulting in a five-year prison sentence and the second in a 33-year sentence.
There had been conflicting reports about her case. Iranian media initially reported that she had been sentenced to seven years in prison. Judge Mohammad Moghiseh spoke to reporters at the swearing in of the new judiciary chief, Ebrahim Raisi. “Nasrin Sotoudeh has been sentenced to five years in prison for conspiring against the system and sentenced to two years in prison for insulting Supreme Leader [Ayatollah Ali Khamenei],” Moghiseh said.
