Iran has arrested the lawyer of two female journalists detained after reporting the death of a woman in custody, which sparked three months of protests, a newspaper said Saturday.

The Islamic republic has been rocked by protests since Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian of Kurdish origin, died on September 16 after her arrest for an alleged breach of the country’s dress code for women.

“Mohammad Ali Kamfirouzi, the lawyer for several activists and journalists, has been detained,” the Ham Mihan newspaper said.

The arrest brings to 25 the number of lawyers detained in connection with the protests, the reformist daily said.

[The oft-quoted line from Shakespeare’s Henry VI — “The first the we do, let’s kill all the lawyers” — is an indication of tyranny, spoken by the leader of “an army of rabble and a demagogue to the ignorant.” The Iranian mullahs are following this playbook in their dire straits, apparently. — Ed]