Maria Kari
- Role
- Attorney for the family posting from her public X account
- Statement date
"I am saddened to see certain members of the Iranian diaspora celebrating our clients' detention."
Source and context
Original post
Maria Kari criticizes advocacy celebrating her clients’ detention (opens in a new tab)Original post introducing the thread
About this source
Original post by a family attorney. She criticizes the detention and argues online campaigning contributed to it. That causal assertion is attributed, not independently established.
Before the quotation
Kari identified the professors as her clients and introduced a thread about the circumstances of their detention.
After the quotation
Her causal explanation is an attorney’s allegation, not independent proof that the petition caused the arrests.
How this statement is classified
The speaker explicitly criticizes the action or its effects in the surrounding directly attributed statement.
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- Published here
- People and groups discussed
- Maryam Tahmasebi, Seyed Eissa Hashemi
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