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Nemat Ahmadi, the lawyer representing Omid Memarian, Masoud Ghoreyshi, and
Reza Vatanikhah, the Iranian journalists arrested in relation to Internet
sites, said in a statement to the Iranian Students News Agency on October
20th, that "any confessions obtained from my clients, in an unknown
location, without the presence of legal council, and by unknown,
unauthorized and unprofessional persons, whose relation to and position
within the Judiciary remains unclear, should be viewed as illegal and in
violation of the 35th amendment of the Iranian Constitution, which
guarantees the right to legal council for all those charged with a crime."
Ahmadi went on to criticize the fact that he had been denied access to his
clients. "Our first objection in court will be to the manner in which my
clients were arrested and detained." Ahmadi further explained that the
charges for the arrest of his clients still remained unclear, that the
location of his clients had not been divulged and that he had also been
denied the opportunity to meet with the judge in charge of these cases. He
has expressed his concerns and criticism of the process in an open letter to
the head of the Judiciary.
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Seven journalists so far have been arrested in the latest wave of crackdowns
again freedom of the press in Iran, this time, targeting internet
journalists. These arrests are in relation to an article written by Ali
Shariatmadari in the hard-line Conservative paper Kayhan, where unproven
charges are regularly made against journalists and also political figures,
followed by arrests. Forced confessions obtained during the interrogation
process have been used in the past to build cases against those arrested.
