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Cancer-diagnosed 85-year old lawyer dying slowly behind bars


Despite Gohardasht Prison clinic emphasizing that an 85-year old lawyer is very ill and cannot continue his jail term due to blood cancer, authorities continue to refuse to release him.
Hassan Taffah was arrested back in 2009 by security forces and transferred to ward 209 of Evin Prison. The charges raised against this member of the International Lawyers & Jurists Federation were “moharebe (enmity against God), measures against national security and propaganda against the state”. (NCRI – Mar 31, 2015)

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