Lawyers should not be charged with the same crimes as their clients. Trials related to political charges are not in accordance with human rights.
Sadly the job security of lawyers has been ruined, so they are less willing to defend political defendants.
In my memoir, I wanted to introduce American women to Iranian women and our lives. I'm not from the highest echelons of society, nor the lowest. I'm a woman who is a lawyer, who is a professor at a university, who won the Nobel Peace Prize. At the same time, I cook. And even when I'm about to go to prison, one of the first things I do is to make enough food and put it in the fridge for my family.
Lawyers have a dangerous job in Iran.
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