Abolsamad Khorramshahi ( fa, عبدالصمد خرمشاهی) is an Iranian lawyer. Khorramshahi was involved in several controversial cases including detained British embassy political analyst Hossein Rassam who was arrested after Iran's disputed presidential election in 2009. He also represented

Roxana Saberi Roxana Saberi (born April 26, 1977) is an American CBS News correspondent and former Miss North Dakota pageant winner. In 2009, she was held prisoner in Iran's Evin Prison for 101 days under accusations of espionage. She subsequently wrote a b ...

, an Iranian-American journalist who was arrested on charges of espionage by the Iranian government, but was later released. Other cases in which Khorramshahi was involved include

Delara Darabi Delara Darabi ( fa, دلارا دارابى) (29 September 19861 May 2009) was an Iranian Gilaki woman who was sentenced to death after having been convicted of murdering her father's female cousin in 2003. Although Delara initially claimed that ...

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Shahla Jahed Khadijeh Shahla Jahed (10 May 1969 – 1 December 2010) was an Iranian nurse who was sentenced to death for her involvement in the murder of her boyfriend's wife. She was hanged on 1 December 2010, being the 146th person to be executed in Iran in ...

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