Prominent lawyer banned from leaving Iran
Amnesty International
02-Oct-2009 (one comment)

The Iranian authorities banned a prominent human rights activist from leaving the country on Friday, Amnesty International has learned. Abdolfattah Soltani was due to travel to collect a human rights award in Germany.Amnesty International deplored the move by the Iranian authorities as a breach of the right to freedom of movement, as guaranteed in international law.

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