Sotoudeh was arrested again in June 2018.
Following Sotoudeh's arrest, Ebadi called for her release
At the time, Sotoudeh was representing Zahra Bahrami,
On 28 August 2010, Iranian authorities raided Sotoudeh's office.
Sotoudeh's imprisonment was widely condemned in the international community.
raised Sotoudeh's case at the UN human rights council
Nasrin Sotoudeh was born in 1963 in a"religious, middle-class" Iranian family.
Sotoudeh was arrested in September 2010 on charges of spreading propaganda
On 13 June 2018, Nasrin Sotoudeh started a second term in prison.
Sotoudeh, who was imprisoned in Evin Prison,
was reportedly held in solitary confinement.
According to her husband, Sotoudeh ended her hunger strike four weeks later,
On 17 October 2012, Sotoudeh began an indefinite hunger strike in protest
In January 2011, Iranian authorities sentenced Sotoudeh to 11 years in prison,
After completing her degree in international law from the university, Sotoudeh took
Sotoudeh was released on 18 September 2013 along with ten other political prisoners,
According to her husband, Sotoudeh ended her hunger strike four weeks later, on 23 October.
Sotoudeh's husband, Reza Khandan, wrote on Facebook
that the sentence entailed 38 years in jail and 148 lashes.
Sotoudeh has emphasized that Reza is"truly a modern
man," standing beside her and her work during her struggles.
On 26 October 2012, Sotoudeh was announced as a co-winner of the Sakharov Prize of the European Parliament.
Human rights defender
and freelance journalist William Nicholas Gomes demanded Immediate and unconditional release of Sotoudeh in August 2018.
On 17 October 2012, Sotoudeh began an indefinite hunger strike in protest
of new restrictions placed on her family visits.
On 4 September 2010, Iranian authorities arrested Sotoudeh on charges of spreading propaganda and conspiring to harm state security.
The editor-in-chief of the publication rejected the collection which"made Sotoudeh even more determined in her work for women's rights.
Sotoudeh's work has included defending abused children
and mothers and working to protect abused children from returning to their abusive fathers.
Sotoudeh's"first work in the field of women's rights"
was a diverse collection of interviews, reports, and articles for the journal Daricheh.
Sotoudeh started her career at the Iranian Ministry of Housing legal office
and after two years joined the legal section of the state-owned Bank Tejarat.
The US condemned what it called the"unjust and harsh verdict" against Sotoudeh, and called her"a strong voice for rule of law
and justice in Iran.
The US condemned what it called the“unjust and harsh verdict” against Sotoudeh, who it called“a strong voice for rule of law
and justice in Iran”.
In mid-September 2011, an appeals court reduced Nasrin Sotoudeh's prison sentence to six years;
her ban from working as a lawyer was reduced to ten years.
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.