A prominent Iranian human rights lawyer who has represented women arrested for removing their headscarves has been jailed.
Nasrin Sotoudeh was charged with several national security-related offences, all of which she denies.
There are conflicting reports over the length of her sentence. Her family said she was given 38 years and 148 lashes.
Iran's Isna news agency reported she had been sentenced to seven years in prison, with no lashes.
Her husband later clarified to BBC Persian that while she had been sentenced to 38 years in total, according to a new Iranian law, she would only serve the longest sentence for one of the convictions, which was 10 years.
Another two and a half years were added to this because of the number of charges against her, raising the total to 12 years, he said.
Rights groups strongly criticised the "shocking" sentence against the award-winning human rights activist. [BBC] Read more
