June 18, 2004
Iranian Court Again Spares Professor's Life
Iran's Supreme Court has, for the second time, overturned a death sentence on a history professor convicted of apostasy for attacking clerical rule.
Hashem Aghajari, who is a faculty member at a teacher-training college in Tehran, was sentenced to death for a 2002 speech in which he said Iranians "should not blindly follow" the clerics. The sentence prompted the largest student protests in several years.
After Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, took the rare step of
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