Messages Out of a Prison Cell

A criminal defence lawyer represented an imprisoned religious leader serving life for a terrorism conspiracy. To visit him she signed prison rules promising not to pass his words to anyone outside. Prosecutors say she used the legal visits as cover: an interpreter talked with the prisoner in another language while she made distracting noise, and she then read out his statement to reporters, including his view that a ceasefire abroad should end. She says she was acting as his advocate.