Fifty-five attorneys of Bukan’s judiciary, in north-west Iran, have been summoned to Branch Two of the city’s Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor’s Office due to signing a statement in support of the family of Jina Mahsa Amini, following a complaint from Ali Zahed, the prosecutor of Bukan.

In mid-September 2022, after the government’s killing of Jina Mahsa Amini, a group of attorneys from Bukan’s judiciary had announced their readiness to take on the case and provide legal representation for the family. They also expressed their condolences for the family.

The Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned that, in recent months, the prosecutor of Bukan has put pressure on the signing attorneys to retract their statement.

After their refusal, the prosecutor filed a complaint against the attorneys, and an investigation was opened against them at Branch Two of the Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor’s Office in Bukan.

The attorneys have been ordered to appear at Branch Two of the Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor’s Office in Bukan within five days, according to a summons sent to them on 11 July.

The prosecutor of Bukan has accused the attorneys of “publishing contents that violate public morality”.

The following is a list of the 55 summoned attorneys:

  1. Ebrahim Azizi
  2. Jamal Ahmadnezhad
  3. Arash Fatehi
  4. Saman Kazemi
  5. Ebrahim Ahmadian
  6. Anvar Fard-Piyadeh
  7. Fardin Bahrami
  8. Sima Ghaderi
  9. Parshang Salehi-Rad
  10. Asrin Khaledi
  11. Shirin Sharafi
  12. Leila Khosravi
  13. Hossein Saadi Moghaddam
  14. Shiler Fotouhi-Sara
  15. Mansour Salehi
  16. Masoud Kiani
  17. Behrouz Kia
  18. Keyvan Mamehpour
  19. Hamed Ghaderpour
  20. Yaghoub Mohammadpour
  21. Motalleb Alavian
  22. Payam Ghoreishi
  23. Farzin Kochari Bukani
  24. Shabnam Khezri
  25. Hassan Dimeh
  26. Monireh Khezri
  27. Salem Valipour
  28. Behzad Maroufi
  29. Shomal Maskani
  30. Hemin Bahrami
  31. Ebrahim Salamati-Nia
  32. Matin Rahmannnezhad
  33. Narmin Hosseini-Khah
  34. Rabe’eh Zabihi
  35. Shahla Hassanzadeh
  36. Mansour Ghaneh
  37. Omid Rasoulzadeh
  38. Yousef Faramarzi
  39. Najmaddin Towhidi
  40. Nasser Irani
  41. Nishtiman Fathollahi
  42. Hayat Katani
  43. Mohammad Ranjbari
  44. Sarajoddin Taheri
  45. Leila Ahmadi
  46. Nahid Pashaei
  47. Serveh Khodapour
  48. Delnia Mohammad Sharifi
  49. Jamshid Ebrahimi
  50. Rahim Sanaati
  51. Fariba Hosseini
  52. Nasser Ebrahimi
  53. Yahya Mowloudi
  54. Chiman Zarifi
  55. Avin Godarzi