caption website children birth_place awards nationality birth_date spouse residence article_title name occupation alma_mater
nasrin sotoudeh in 2010 http://nasrinsotoudeh.com/ two tehran , iran freedom -lrb- 2012 -rrb- to write award -lrb- 2011 -rrb- sakharov prize iranian 30 may 1963 reza khandan tehran , iran nasrin sotoudeh
 nasrin sotoudeh human rights lawyer shahid beheshti university
nasrin sotoudeh

nasrin sotoudeh -lrb- also spelled sotoodeh ; -rrb- is a human rights lawyer in iran .
she has represented imprisoned iranian opposition activists and politicians following the disputed june 2009 iranian presidential elections as well as prisoners sentenced to death for crimes committed when they were minors .
her clients have included journalist isa saharkhiz , nobel peace prize laureate shirin ebadi , and heshmat tabarzadi , the head of the banned opposition group democratic front of iran .
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 .
in january 2011 , iranian authorities sentenced sotoudeh to 11 years in prison , in addition to barring her from practicing law and from leaving the country for 20 years .
an appeals court later reduced sotoudeh 's prison sentence to six years , and her ban from working as a lawyer to ten years .
