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Iranian Lawyers: Kurdish Dissident’s Prison Transfer Violated Rights

Iranian lawyers who say they are representing an Iranian Kurdish dissident facing a death sentence have criticized authorities for transferring him to a prison near Tehran, far from his home. Exiled Iranian rights group Campaign for the Defense of Political and Civil Prisoners published a statement from the three lawyers about the case of Ramin Hossein Panahi on Wednesday. In it, Hossein Ahmadiniaz, Osman Mozayan and Maziyar Tataei said they learned from Panahi’s family that he had been...


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