Mohammad Ali Dadkhah

Mohammad Ali Dadkhah

Iran

Mohammad Ali Dadkhah represented may supporters of the opposition and activists who were arrested after the presidential elections in 2009. He was also co-founder of the Defenders of Human Rights Center (DHRC) in 2001.

On 4 July 2011, he was given a nine-year prison term and barred from working as a lawyer for ten years. He was charged with attempting to overthrow the regime. The charges are related to his representation of arrested protesters. His prosecution could also be the result of his involvement in the foundation of the DHRC, since other founders have been prosecuted for the same reason.

Examples are the lawyers Shirin Ebadi, Mohammad Seifzadeh, Mohammad Sharif and Abdolfatah Soltani. The DHRC is presently led by Shirin Ebadi, lawyer and Nobel laureate, who took the initiative for the foundation of the DHRC and had to leave Iran because of the many repressive measures of its government.

News aboutMohammad Ali Dadkhah

7 May 2012 Iran Jail sentence Ali Dadkhah upheld in appeal
6 July 2011 Iran Mohammed Ali Dadkhah convicted to 9 years in prison
3 February 2011 Iran Pressure on lawyers increases again

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