Continuation of the arrest of lawyers
The wave of arrests of lawyers in the city of Shiraz continues, and legal expert Masoud Ahmadian has reported that the number of detainees has increased to 8 people.
Mr. Ahmadian told the news outlet Emtedad that after a peaceful gathering last month by a group of lawyers from Shiraz in front of the Bar Association of Fars Province, a motorized unit of the special forces of Faraja stormed the location, used tear gas to drive the protesters inside the building, and from that time, the lawyers were threatened with arrest.
According to him, in recent days, Nazanin Salari, the head of the Human Rights Commission of the Bar Association of the Fars region, Mahmoud Taravat Rouy, a lawyer and human rights activist, and Bahar Sahraian, a lawyer and human rights activist, have been arrested and charged with the accusation of assembly and collusion.