Nobel winner says still denied access to US-Iranian

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Source: AFP

TEHRAN (AFP) - Nobel prize winner and lawyer Shirin Ebadi said on Wednesday that she was still being denied access to jailed US-Iranian scholar Haleh Esfandiari after Iran's judiciary said access was no problem.

Ebadi, appointed Esfandiari's lawyer by her family, said in a fax obtained by AFP that "on Wednesday I went to the investigating judge in the revolutionary court, and just like Monday I was not allowed in to see her."

The peace laureate said she went to Evin prison, where Esfandiari is being held pending a possible trial, where the deputy public prosecutor "declined me permission to meet my client."

"My client is in prison in solitary confinement and is prohibited any visit and thus deprived of her citizen's rights and does not have the right to a lawyer," she added.



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