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.

Condemned
How this statement is classified

The speaker explicitly criticizes the action or its effects in the surrounding directly attributed statement.

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