The Guardian - Prominent lawyer was granted conditional release after serving more than seven years Prominent Iranian human rights lawyer Abdolfattah Soltani has been released from prison after spending more than seven years behind bars, the official IRNA news agency reported. The authorities agreed yesterday to my clients conditional parole ...

The daughter of jailed Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh is to collect the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought on her behalf at the European Parliament. It comes at a time of what many campaigners say is unprecedented pressure on the legal profession in Iran, reports BBC Persian's Fariba Sahraei. Kamal is a young Kurdish activist from ...