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15 Sep 2021

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Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA)

Iran: Defense lawyer for Haft Tappeh Workers’ case sentenced to one year in prison

'Revolutionary Court Sentences Farzaneh Zilabi, Defense Lawyer for the Haft Tappeh Workers’ Case, to One Year in Prison', 15 September 2021

Farzaneh Zilabi, the defense lawyer for the Haft Tappeh workers’ case, was sentenced by the Ahvaz Revolutionary Court to one year in prison... [I]n addition to the prison sentence, Zilabi has received a two year ban from leaving the country...

On May 16 of this year, after Farzaneh Zilabi’s interrogation session in the Ahvaz court, Nasser Zarafshan stated that “Besides issuing a bail, the case investigator has issued a six-month ban from practicing law for Ms. Zilabi” and had mentioned that his client, Ms. Zilabi, is “paying for the defending the Haft Tappeh workers”.