Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh pictured here in 2008
IRANIAN human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh has been jailed for conspiracy and insulting the the country’s supreme leader but there is growing confusion over her sentence.
According to Ms Sotoudeh’s husband, Reza Khandan, she was sentenced to 38 years in prison and will receive 148 lashes.
On Facebook he stated that Ms Sotoudeh was sentenced in two separate cases, the first one resulting in a five-year jail sentence and the second in a 33-year sentence. However, Iranian media declared she had been sentenced to seven years in prison.
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