Human Rights Lawyer Acquitted In Iran

Soltani was sentenced to five years' imprisonment in March 2006 for leaking documents related to Iran's nuclear development program, but was released on bail two months ago.

Soltani is a member of Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi's Defenders of Human Rights Center. He has been involved in some of Iran's most high-profile human rights cases, and was recently named to serve alongside Ebadi on the defense team of Haleh Esfandiari, an Iranian-American scholar detained in Iran since early May and accused of subversion.

(AFP)