August 30, 2016
Two weeks after the trial and we still have no charges. It remains a summer of waiting, watching a strange legal process. It is perhaps less strange given how much of Nazanin’s treatment has been illegal under Iranian law:
Legally, Nazanin should have been charged within 48 hours, not 149 days and counting. She should have had access to a lawyer upon arrest, not meet him only once, two months after her interrogation was complete. With a lawyer Nazanin should have been able to challenge her detention while it was renewed every 10 days.
In practice, the rules can be broken – at the Guards’ discretion. Restrictions were going to apply in Iran’s new criminal code to prevent evidence collected illegally being admissable, but they were removed just before the law was passed.
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