Iranian Human Rights Lawyer Seeks Asylum In Norway

OSLO, Norway – Jonas Gahr Stoere, the Norwegian buy cialis online Foreign Minister said on Sunday he was pleased that Mr. Mohammad Mostafaei, the Iranian human rights lawyer who had sought asylum in Norway, had reached safety.

“But we remain concerned and focused on the free cialis without prescription fate of other human rights defenders inside Iran, and obviously their clients,” he told Reuters.

Sharia law, enforced in buy Coumadin online Iran since the Islamic revolution of 1979 awards those charged with crimes of murder, adultery, rape, armed robbery, apostasy and drug trafficking the death penalty.

Human rights lawyer Mohammad Mostafaei, 37 the Iranian lawyer, who was defending Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, a 43-year-old woman facing death by stoning, for alleged adultery , an accusation which she denies, disappeared from Tehran on July 24 after questioning by Iranian authorities and had fled to Norway to seek protection from his country’s authorities.

Mostafaei, a vehement critic of the Iranian judicial system, who has represented hundreds of clients, including juveniles facing the death penalty. told an Oslo news conference through an interpreter “what was my reward for this? It was an arrest order against me and the arrest of my wife and the brother of my wife, when they could not get me,” he said. He went to Norway since he had a visitor’s visa and had received help from the Norwegian embassy in Turkey after fleeing there by car, horseback and on foot.

He said that his wife was freed Saturday and he expected her and their 7-year-old daughter to eventually join him in Norway.

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