November 29, 2007
Tehran, -- Khalil Bahramian, one of the
lawyers defending jailed Iranian journalists Adnan
Hassanpour and Hiwa Boutimar, has been arrested in
Tehran just before boarding a flight for Italy via
Istanbul.
Bahramian was stopped by plainclothes police on
Tuesday night just after immigration officials told
him he could not leave the country.
Bahramian was due in the Italian city of Siena on
Friday to attend the prize-ceremony for the City of
Siena - ISF 2007 freedom of the press award which
Hassanpour and Boutimar have won.
The prize is organised jointly by Information,
Safety & Freedom (ISF) and the municipality of
Sienna.
Leyli Hassanpour, sister of Adnan and Hadi Boutimar,
brother of Hiwa, will attend Friday's ceremony.
The families of the two Kurdish journalists,
condemned to death by the Iranian Revolutionary
Court of Sanandaj (Sina), will be also be welcomed
by the Regional Council of Tuscany on Friday. |
Kurdish journalists
Adnan Hassanpur (L) and Hiwa Botimar sentenced to death
by the Iranian Islamic regime
عدنان حسن پور و هیوا بوتیمار |
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