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Iran Latest: The Regime's War on the Lawyers --- 3 More Arrested


             

 DateSaturday, November 13, 2010 at 16:56 | AuthorScott Lucas in ,

Three more prominent defence attorneys have been detained in Iran. At 4 a.m. local time, Sara Sabaghian, Maryam Kianarsi, and Maryam Karbasi were arrested by security officers at Tehran's Imam Khomeini International Airport as they returned from Turkey. There is no news of the whereabouts of the three lawyers. 

Sara Sabaghian is a member of the Bar Association's Committee for the Defense of Women and Children's Rights. She was previously arrested on 8  July with other lawyers, including Mohammad Ali Dadkhah, a founding member of Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi's Center for Defenders of Human Rights. Sabaghian is one of the lawyers representing the web blogger Hossein Ronaghi-Maleki (Babak Khorramdin), who has been sentenced to 15 years prison. 

Maryam Kianarsi is the lawyer for Kobra Najar, a women who has been sentenced to death by stoning.

The three women join other imprisoned lawyers such as Nasrine Sotoudeh and Houton Kian. Others such as Mohammad Mostafaei have fled Iran to avoid arrest.

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