31 January 2018
Barristers have written to the Supreme Leader of Iran, urging the Iranian authorities to intervene in the treatment of lawyers, specifically the detention of human rights lawyers Abdolfattah Soltani and Narges Mohammadi. Andrew Walker QC, Chair of the Bar Council, and Kirsty Brimelow QC, Chair of the Bar Human Rights Committee, highlighted the plights of Soltani, who is serving a 13-year sentence for crimes including ‘spreading propaganda against the system’, and Mohammadi, who campaigned against the death penalty and was sentenced to six years and then an extra 16 years for crimes including ‘meeting and conspiring against the Islamic Republic’.
