Iranwire – Three Iranian lawyers have been brought to trial on charges that included “propaganda activities against the Islamic Republic,” the Dadban legal group reported.
It said that Seyed Mehdi Karimi, Seyed Sadegh Mostafavi and Abuzar Nasrollahi appeared before a Revolutionary Court in Tehran on February 4.
Reza Shafakhah, another lawyer, said that his colleagues were “tried just for posting stuff on their social media pages.”
Last month, two United Nations experts denounced the “enormous obstacles and pressures” faced by Iranian lawyers who provided, or attempted to provide, legal support to protesters.
At least 66 lawyers have been arrested and detained since nationwide protests erupted in September 2022, “apparently in an attempt to both intimidate them and to prevent them from representing protestors,” the experts said in a statement.
Eleven of these lawyers have been sentenced and 47 have been released pending trial, they said, adding that many others were targeted with intimidation, harassment and disbarment.