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Attorney, Rights Defender Sentenced to 30 Years, Flogging in Iran – VOA News – Attorney, Rights Defender Sentenced to 30 Years, Flogging in Iran VOA News
An Iranian lawyer has been jailed for 30 years after setting up a channel on the popular social media platform Telegram, highlighting human rights abuses in the Islamic Republic. Amir Salar Davoudi was convicted by a revolutionary court for “propaganda against the state” and “insulting officials” and is set to be flogged 111 times. According to his lawyer Vahid Farahani, Davoudi was also accused of “collaborating with an enemy state” after giving an interview to Voice of America Persian-language television. Speaking to the New York-based Center for Human Rights in Iran in April, Farahani wa…
– June 3, 2019 at 06:07PM
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