Iranian Academic Sentenced to Death

(BBC) Jim Muir - A liberal Iranian journalist and academic, Hashem Aghajari, a war veteran who lost a leg in the 1980-88 war with Iraq, has been sentenced to death for apostasy and insulting the imams of early Islam, after calling for reform within the Islamic clerical establishment.


2002-11-08 00:00:00

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