Human rights lawyer - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Thu, 11 Apr 2019 05:07:59 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Human rights lawyer - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Support grows for whipped, imprisoned female human rights lawyer https://cathnews.co.nz/2019/04/11/whipped-imprisoned-female-human-rights-lawyer/ Thu, 11 Apr 2019 07:55:30 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=116821 Support is growing for an Iranian human rights lawyer after she was sentenced to 38 years in prison for defending women who refused to wear headscarves. Nasrin Sotoudeh received the sentence — along with 148 lashes — last month on charges of encouraging prostitution and offering legal advice to women protesting the mandatory hijab. The Read more

Support grows for whipped, imprisoned female human rights lawyer... Read more]]> Support is growing for an Iranian human rights lawyer after she was sentenced to 38 years in prison for defending women who refused to wear headscarves.

Nasrin Sotoudeh received the sentence — along with 148 lashes — last month on charges of encouraging prostitution and offering legal advice to women protesting the mandatory hijab.

The award-winning human right lawyer is serving her sentence in Iran's notorious Evin prison, often referred to as the regime's "torture factory." Read more

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