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| Iranian Court Reimposes Death Sentence | ||
| 2004-05-03 | ||
An Iranian court reimposed a death sentence Monday against a university professor who criticized clerical rule, a judicial official told The Associated Press. The original sentence handed down to Hashem Aghajari in November 2002 infuriated students and led to some of the biggest demonstrations in years. The death sentence was reinstated by a court in Hamedan province in western Iran, said Zekrollah Ahmadi, the chief judiciary official in the province. Aghajari was convicted in 2002 of insulting Islam and questioning the rule of hard-line clerics. He was condemned to death, banned from teaching for 10 years, exiled for eight years to three remote cities, and sentenced to 74 lashes.
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| Posted by:Steve |
| #8 Amnesia International? Human Waste Watch? They're all over this, right? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2004-05-03 10:24:27 PM |
| #7 The Religion of Peace and Tolerence (tm) strikes again! |
| Posted by: Secret Master 2004-05-03 6:29:18 PM |
| #6 "... a death sentence Monday against a university professor who criticized clerical rule..." Sharia - coming to a country near you. Why we fight. |
| Posted by: Jake 2004-05-03 2:48:48 PM |
| #5 I'm surprised they aren't going to lash the malcontent to a car bumper and drag him through the streets of Tehran. Let the children see the cost of free thought. |
| Posted by: Lucky 2004-05-03 2:46:29 PM |
| #4 He was condemned to death, banned from teaching for 10 years, exiled for eight years to three remote cities, and sentenced to 74 lashes. Hmmm Leme-see Do they move his body around to those remote cities after they kill him? Then after 8 years, when he is a skeleton they whip him? Then they allow the mass of broken bones to teach two years later. They have a lot more hope in raising the dead on command than I thought. A traveling decomposing body in three places over a period of 8 years. And. if the locals complain about any odor, they may get the same because they are critical of the clergy? The Iranian clerics have it pretty godd. They should be able to blow off and ignore criticism because the punishments they mete out are so "inventive" |
| Posted by: BigEd 2004-05-03 1:23:59 PM |
| #3 What's fascinating to me is that a provincial court trumps their Supreme Court!!?!? Not very Supreme, are they? I can picture the Mad Mullahs ordering him exhumed to make it an even 100... |
| Posted by: .com 2004-05-03 1:19:52 PM |
| #2 yes, then dug up and lashed again |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-05-03 1:15:58 PM |
| #1 1) condemned to death 2) banned from teaching for 10 years 3) exiled for eight years 4) sentenced to 74 lashes In that order? |
| Posted by: .com 2004-05-03 1:12:46 PM |