Abdolreza Ghanbari, the secretary and member of the Science Board of a university who was arrested during post-election events in 2009 was sentenced to death on the charge of receiving a phone call from abroad- which was later said to have been from an opposition party. His death sentence has been upheld and referred to the Sentence Implementation Department. According to reports, Abdolreza Qanbari was denied the right to a lawyer of his choosing during the time he had filed for an appeal and is currently denied a lawyer. Despite his family’s efforts to get him a lawyer of their choosing, the Tehran Revolutionary Court has opposed this issue. (Human Rights Activists in Iran – Aug. 6, 2011)
