Abolsamad Khorramshahi is a renowned Iran

Iran

Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...

ian lawyer.

Khorramshahi was involved in several controversial cases including detained British embassy political analyst Hossein Rassam who was arrested after Iran's disputed presidential election in 2009. He also represented Roxana Saberi

Roxana Saberi

Roxana Saberi is an American journalist who was arrested in Iran in January 2009. On April 8, 2009, the Iranian government charged Saberi with espionage, which she denied. She was subsequently sentenced to an eight-year prison term...

, an Iranian-American journalist who was arrested on charges of espionage by the Iranian government, but was later released.

Other cases in which Khorramshahi was involved include:

• Delara Darabi
  Delara Darabi
  Delara Darabi was an Iranian Gilaki female, who was sentenced to death by hanging when she was only 16 years old. She was convicted of murdering her father's female cousin in 2003...
  
  
• Shahla Jahed