Shirin Ebadi, the Iranian Nobel peace laureate, says the jailed members of Iran’s Human Rights Defenders Centre are being intimidated and pressured into making coerced confessions against their organization.
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Iranian Lawyers Need Independence
On Eve of Bar Association’s Independence Anniversary, Legal Profession Under Assault
Gonabadi Dervishes’s Lawyers And Administrators Of Majzooban Noor Website Were Charged
Hearing and charged to the legal status of Gonabadi Dervishes’s lawyers and administrators of Majzooban Noor website was held in Evin prison .
Transfer of lawyers and Majzooban Noor’s administrators to the section 350 of Evin prison
Lawyers and administrators of Majzooban Noor Website were transferred from security section No. 209 to section 350 of Evin prisonto this morning.
Issuing bail of several million tomans for Gonabadi Dervishes’s lawyers
Inspector of Gonabadi Dervishes’s lawyers has issued surety and bail for them which cost several hundred million tomans .
The latest situation of the rights abuses of Gonabadi Dervishes :16 Dervishes in prison
From Shahrivar,11,1390 ( September,2, 2011) of this year an unprecedented wave of pressure have been began on the Gonabadi Dervishes and so far the process is going on .
Iranian official’s statement at UN cannot conceal persecution of defence lawyers
Amnesty International – Amnesty International deplores the statement at a UN press conference on 16 November 2011 by Mohammad Javad Larijani, the Secretary General of the Judiciary’s High Council for Human Rights, that “[n]o lawyer is in prison because he is a lawyer or he is a defender of human rights.”
The families of lawyers and Majzooban Noor Website’s managers are worried after the first meeting in Evin prison
After 75 days of detention of administrators of Majzooban Noor Website and Gonabadi Dervishes Lawyers , their families could visit with them, for the first time .
Hearing of the counts of Dervishes’ lawyers in Bandar Abas is going on
Regarding the complaint of the intelligence service of Kish Island against Messrs. Amir Eslami and Farshid Yadollahi on Day 29, 1387 (January 19, 2009), rehear session of the court of appeal has been convened on (October 31, 2011).
Iran’s Lawyers Who Need Lawyers
Iranian human-rights lawyer Abdolfattah Soltani was arrested in Tehran earlier this month—re-arrested, actually.