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VOA Persian: Bar Association says 23 lawyers died under suspicious circumstances


FILE - A Justice statue is pictured at a lawyer's office in Tehran, Iran, May 9, 2011.
FILE - A Justice statue is pictured at a lawyer's office in Tehran, Iran, May 9, 2011.

A report by the Iranian Bar Association Union reveals that since the start of 2017, at least 54 instances of violence targeting lawyers have been documented.

These include murders, assassination attempts and acts of property damage.

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