2) Abdolfattah Soltani arrestato il 16 giugno 2009,
rilasciato su cauzione il 27 agosto 2009
Noto avvocato difensore dei diritti umani, ha rappresentato in giudizio (con il premio Nobel per la pace Shirin Ebadi ) la famiglia di Zahara Kazemi , fotogiornalista iraniana-canadese assassinata nel carcere di Evin nel 2003. Sempre con la Ebadi, Soltani ha anche difeso il giornalista dissidente Akbar Ganij durante la sua prigionia e il lungo sciopero della fame.
È tra i fondatori (come Shirin Ebadi e Mohammad Ali Dadkhah ) del Defenders for Human Rights Center (DHRC).
Sin dal 2002 è stato perseguitato dal regime per la sua attività legale in difesa dei prigionieri politici. Il 9 luglio 2002 fu condannato a quattro mesi di carcere e sospeso per cinque anni dall'esercizio the profession after having defended a dozen political prisoners. Arrested again Jan. 20, 2003, between 2005 and 2006, the lawyer Soltani well spent 219 days in a row in Evin prison. It has been arrested on July 30, 2005 on charges of revealing secrets abroad the case of so-called "nuclear spies" . A sign the arrest warrant was the Tehran prosecutor, Saeed Mortazavi .
It took five months (two of them spent in solitary confinement) before that Soltani was allowed to speak with his lawyer. There they wanted "only" two for him to receive visits from his wife, under supervision of a prison guard. released on payment of bail on March 6, 2006 , Soltani was sentenced by the Revolutionary Court to five years imprisonment and deprivation of civil rights for "violating the confidentiality of preliminary investigation" released secret documents "and played" propaganda against the system ". He was acquitted on appeal in 2007, yet the regime has confiscated the identity documents, effectively limiting his freedom of movement , so Soltani's lawyer had to give up to attend the conference on "Freedom of expression Iran "which was held at the Sorbonne in Paris in October 2007 and which had been officially invited.
He was arrested again on June 16 last, in his office, and transferred to unknown place, without warrant and without any grounds justifying the detention. To execute the arrest, at 16 (now in Tehran) were four officers in plain clothes. They have also confiscated documents Soltani's lawyer, purse, computer and mobile phone. The testimony on his condition after more than a month the arrest, detention in Evin and confirm the report that a state of weight loss is particularly troubling given that Soltani is suffering from serious disorders of the digestive system time. The next September 17 Abdolfattah Soltani should go Germania a ritirare il Premio Internazionale Norimberga per i Diritti Umani , che gli è stato nel frattempo assegnato. Aggiornamento del 31 luglio 2009
L'Ufficio per i diritti umani di Norimberga ha appreso che l'avvocato Soltani non si troverebbe più in isolamento e gli sarebbe consentito di chiamare per telefono i suoi familiari. La notizia è riferita dal sito di un giornale locale ( in tedesco ).
Aggiornamento del 23 agosto 2009 L'avvocato Soltani è in carcere da 70 giorni. Alcuni giorni fa la moglie, Massome Dehghanm, ha scritto una lettera (riportata dal sito Radio Farda's ) to judiciary chief Mohammad Sadeq Larijani , officially took office in his role on August 15 last year and succeeded Mahmoud Shahroudi . In the letter
Massome Dehghanm appeals to the principles of independence and impartiality of the judiciary. In this regard she notes that the judges who signed the arrest order against her husband, accusing him of fomenting post-election protests, are the same (Saeed Mortazavi and Mateen Rasekh) than in the past had been arrested and accused him of espionage (to have disclosed confidential documents relating to the country's nuclear program, see above), a charge for which the lawyer was Soltani was then acquitted on appeal.
Massome Dehghanm denies the responsibilities of husband and stresses that he is a lawyer and a human rights defender, not a political activist. Mrs. Dehghanm also recalls the head of the judiciary Larijani which are now passed the 60 days prescribed by law as a deadline for Iranian custody, and that the law provides, beyond that period, the release of the accused if the decision to arrest not be confirmed and extended. Finally, she writes that, during this long period of detention, Abdolfattah Soltani has suffered numerous violations of his civil rights, primarily the inability to meet his family and his lawyer. Almost simultaneously
the Defenders of Human Rights Center issued a statement protesting the continued harassment of its members, pointing out that in addition to the arrests of lawyers and Dadkhah Soltani, and the employee of the center Abdolreza Tajik, other members of the association were repeatedly summoned by the authorities, interrogated and threatened to go to meet stringent security measures if they do not suspend their activities.
Update August 27, 2009 Lawyer Abdolfattah Soltani was released today after paying a bail of 85 thousand Euros. It was held in Evin prison from 72 days. It gives
the news site of the German newspaper Nürnberger Zeitung . The German Foreign Ministry did not confirm the news, which is, however, revived by several Iranian websites, including that of Radio Farda .
Germany, and the city of Nuremberg in particular, was particularly anxious as to the fate of the lawyer Soltani on October 4 next should be given the Nuremberg International Human Rights Award 2009. Only yesterday, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Guenter Gloser had made a new attempt to secure the release of Soltani.
The hope now is that the lawyer Soltani may be present in person at the awards ceremony to be held even though the Nuremberg Opera House, despite its release, there is little doubt that this can happen because it is unlikely that the Iranian authorities allow him to leave the country.
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