The Hana Human Rights Organization, while strongly condemning the new wave of security pressures on independent lawyers, considers the filing of judicial cases against Amir Raisian and Milad Panahipour as a systematic attempt to deprive political prisoners of their right to defense.
According to reports received by the Hana Human Rights Organization, the security institutions of the Islamic Republic have opened judicial cases against two prominent defense attorneys, Amir Raisian and Milad Panahipour, for raising awareness and providing information regarding the case status of one of the detainees from the January 2026 protests. Following their summons to the Tehran Security Prosecutor’s Office and the formal reading of their charges, these two legal professionals were temporarily released on bail.
The fabrication of these cases comes in the wake of the two lawyers’ protests against the unlawful deprivation of Ehsan Hosseinipour’s right to access a lawyer of his choosing. Ehsan Hosseinipour, a 19-year-old teenager abducted by security forces during the January 2026 protests, is currently facing severe fabricated charges that carry the grave risk of an inhumane death sentence.
The Hana Human Rights Organization emphasizes that depriving prisoners of the right to a fair trial and prosecuting lawyers who refuse to remain silent in the face of the violation of their clients’ rights constitutes a blatant violation of international conventions. Hana calls upon all international institutions and human rights defenders not to remain silent in the face of this organized repression and to increase pressure on the Islamic Republic to save the life of Ehsan Hosseinipour and put an end to the judicial harassment of independent lawyers.