No Defence: A Report on the Status of Lawyers and the Bar Associations in Iran
The report presents a comprehensive, evidence-based account of how restrictive laws, political prosecutions, security-agency interference, and gender-based discrimination have converged to strip lawyers of independence, endanger their lives, and weaken fair trial rights for all Iranians. Drawing on legal analysis and documented patterns over recent years, No Defence finds that Iran’s legal community is increasingly forced to operate under conditions incompatible with basic international standards. The report details how restrictive laws, political prosecutions, security-agency interference, and institutional capture of bar associations are systematically dismantling the right to defence and hollowing out fair-trial guarantees for all Iranians.
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