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Iranian Human Rights Lawyer Abdolfattah Soltani Sentenced to 18 Years in Prison

March 12, 2012
2009 Iranian Presidential Election
Abdolfattah Soltani
Evin
Human Rights
Iran
Iranian Human Rights lawyer
Maede Soltani
Middle East
Shirin Ebadi
Tehran

A Tehran revolutionary court has sentenced prominent Iranian human rights lawyer Abdolfattah Soltani to prison and banned him from practicing law for 20 years. Soltani co-founded a human rights group with Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi and is being held in Evin prison. Soltani’s daughter Maede hopes that the sentence will be overturned, […]