World | Iran Iran Locks Up Human Rights Lawyer for 11 Years Advocate of women, children jailed for 'propaganda' By Nick McMaster Posted Jan 10, 2011 6:28 PM CST Copied Iranian lawyer Shirin Ebadi, Peace Nobel prize winner in 2003, launches an appeal for the release of lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, Dec. 20, 2010. (AP Photo/Keystone, Salvatore Di Nolfi) Iran has sentenced a human rights lawyer to 11 years in jail for "activities against national security" and "propaganda against the regime," the New York Times reports. Nasrin Sotoudeh was stripped of her license to practice law in Iran and also ordered to remain in the country for the next 20 years. Sotoudeh is known for her work defending women and children, but her husband says she angered authorities by giving interviews to foreign news organizations. Husband Reza Khandan points out that while being interrogated, police told his wife she was guaranteed to get at least 10 years in jail—“This shows that the court itself did not play much of a role,” he says. “We hope that the appeal court will come forward and issue justice.” Read These Next North Carolina shooting suspect once walked the red carpet. Multiple people have been shot at a Mormon church in Michigan. The gunman who killed 4 at a Michigan church was an ex-marine. 'We heard a big bang,' says churchgoer in Michigan Report an error