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Detained Iranian rights lawyer faces security charges

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Sotoudeh, who has represented Iranian opposition activists, was sentenced to six years in jail in 2010 and banned from practice after being convicted of spreading propaganda.
DUBAI – Iran has charged prominent human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh with security offenses after re-arresting her earlier this month, her husband was quoted as saying on Saturday. « My wife has been detained on charges of collusion, (illegal) assembly and propaganda against the system, » Sotoudeh’s husband Reza Khandan said, according to Iran’s semi-official news agency ISNA.

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