Despite protests from the U.S. State Department, Emanual Zeltser, a lawyer for exiled Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky and the late Georgian businessman Badri Patarkatsishvili, has been transferred to a psychiatric hospital. He was arrested in March at Minsk airport for allegedly dealing in foreign documents.
Watchdog
Monday 21 April 2008
An Iranian court has reportedly given women's rights activist Nasrin Afzali a suspended flogging and jail sentence for disturbing public order.
The reformist "Etemad" newspaper quotes Afzali's lawyer, Mohammad Mostafai, as saying his client was sentenced to 10 lashes and a six-month jail term. Afzali was arrested in March 2007 during a protest in Tehran.
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