Five human rights lawyers arrested in Iranian crackdown on opposition

FIVE Iranian human rights lawyers were in custody tonight following their arrest by the regime in Tehran.
Three were taken away by security officials at Imam Khomeini Airport in the Iranian capital when they returned from Turkey over the weekend.
Maryam Kianersi, Sara Sabaghian and Maryam Karbasi were arrested for "security-related offences and violating the Islamic Republic's moral standards outside Iran," according to Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi, Tehran's chief prosecutor.
Two other lawyers were also detained, he said.
The three women had signed a letter demanding the release of Nasrin Sotoudeh, another human rights lawyer, who has been in solitary confinement in Iran's Evin Prison since her arrest September 4.
Ms Sotoudeh was due to go on trial charged with threatening national security, but reports published over the weekend suggested her trial might be postponed.
Human rights groups said that the Iranian regime was targeting lawyers, having already detained thousands of opposition activists since the presidential elections last year.
The regime so far arrested or exiled at least 15 lawyers, including Mohammed Mostafaei, who represented Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, the woman sentenced to death by stoning in Iran for alleged adultery.

He applied for asylum in Norway, where his wife and daughter later joined him.

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