Her husband says the sentence is unusually harsh even for Tehran which cracks down hard on dissent and regularly imposes death sentences for some crimes.
Iranian lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh hugs get son Nima at her home in Tehran on Sept 18, 2013.
She was jailed in 2010 for spreading propaganda and conspiring to harm state security – charges she denied – and was released after serving half her six-year term. The European Parliament awarded her the Sakharov human rights prize. The news comes days after Iran appointed a new head of the judiciary – Ebrahim Raisi, a hardline cleric who is a protégé of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The appointment is seen as weakening the political influence of President Hassan Rouhani, a relative moderate.
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