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Iran arrests lawyer for Kazemi family 31 Jul 2005 CBC News Iranian authorities have arrested the lawyer for the family of slain Montreal photojournalist Zahra Kazemi, accusing him of leaking classified information on Iran's nuclear espionage. "He has revealed information on nuclear spies both inside and outside Iran as well as to families of the suspects," judiciary spokesman Jamal Karimirad said Sunday. Adolfattah Soltani was arrested on Saturday, according to his lawyer, Mohammad Dadkhah. Dadkhah said he suspects the real reason for Soltani's arrest was his work investigating the case of Kazemi, who died in an Iranian jail in July...

Row over Iran's prominent journalist escalates LONDON, July 31 (IranMania) - The row between Iran's highest profile political prisoner, journalist Akbar Ganji, and the hardline judiciary escalated Saturday on the 50th day of his hunger strike, with fears he may not live much longer. In a further sign of tension, Abdolfattah Soltani, one of the lawyers representing Ganji and a colleague of Nobel Prize winner Shirin Ebadi, was arrested. It was not clear if his detention was related to the Ganji case. "Ganji's situation is very critical and it is possible that these are his last days of life," his...

TEHRAN - A colleague of the Nobel Prize winning Iranian human rights lawyer Shirin Ebadi, Abdolfattah Soltani, was arrested on Saturday, a fellow lawyer said. A group of men appeared at a legal building where Soltani, already the subject of an arrest warrant, was holding a protest and "put him into a car and took him away," Mohammad Sharif told the student agency ISNA. He was not able to say what service the men belonged to and added that other agents filmed the arrest. Alongside Ebadi, Soltani represents the jailed hunger-striking journalist Akbar Ganji and the family of the murdered...