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IRAN: Prominent human rights lawyer sentenced to 13 years imprisonment in exile on appeal

June 13, 2012 Human Rights Comments Off on IRAN: Prominent human rights lawyer sentenced to 13 years imprisonment in exile on appeal

Paris-Geneva, June 13, 2012. The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), denounces the unfair sentence on appeal of Mr. Abdolfattah Soltani to 13 years in prison in exile in the remote city of Borazjan (southern Bushehr province).
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