Imprisoned Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh will go on trial again on December 23, her lawyer Payam Derafshan tells official news agency IRNA.
Sotoudeh, an award-winning activist, was arrested in June and told she had already been found guilty “in absentia” on spying charges and sentenced to a six-year prison term by Tehran’s Revolutionary Court.
It was not clear what charges she would face in the new trial, which will be heard at Tehran’s Revolutionary Court.
Prior to her arrest in June, 55-year-old Sotoudeh had taken on the cases of several women arrested for standing in public areas without their headscarves, which are mandatory in Iran.
She had also criticized a new criminal code that allows only a small number of lawyers to represent individuals charged with national security offenses, including a list of just 20 for Tehran.
— AFP
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