IAPL further documents Iranian authorities suppression of lawyers trying to represent protestors
Iran has arrested the lawyer of two female journalists jailed after covering the death in custody of a young woman that sparked three months of protests, a newspaper said Saturday.
The Islamic Republic has been rocked by protests since Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian of Kurdish origin, died on September 16 after her arrest for an alleged breach of the country’s dress code for women.
Nasrin Sotoudeh, a human rights lawyer on medical furlough from prison, told me that the West should do more to delegitimize Iran's regime and that countries with embassies in Tehran should recall their ambassadors. She's already serving 10 years (down from 38 yrs & 148 lashes).
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“Mohammad Ali Kamfirouzi, the lawyer for several activists and journalists, has been detained,” the Ham Mihan newspaper said.
The arrest brings to 25 the number of lawyers detained in connection to the protests, according to the newspaper.
Kamfirouzi’s lawyer Mohammad Ali Bagherpour was cited as saying his client had not received a summons, was unaware of the charges he faced and that he had been detained without any legal formalities.
Ham Mihan quoted Kamfirouzi’s brother as saying that his arrest had occurred on Wednesday, as well as that the judiciary was “responsible for protecting my brother’s life and health.”
Among Kamfirouzi’s clients were Niloufar Hamedi and Elaheh Mohammadi, the two female journalists arrested after covering Amini’s death and its aftermath.
Hamedi, who works at Shargh newspaper, was detained on September 20 after visiting the hospital where Amini had spent three days in a coma before her death.
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