Court Ends Proceedings Against Dissident
From Times Wire Reports
Iran’s judiciary ended proceedings against the country’s top academic dissident, a man who faced the death penalty for telling Iranians not to follow their ruling clerics “like monkeys,” his lawyer said.
Hashem Aghajari last July was freed on bail from two years’ imprisonment, after winning two appeals against hanging.
However, he still had to appeal against a remaining charge of insulting Islamic values.
Lawyer Saleh Nikbakht said the judiciary had now ruled that the two years already served covered this charge.
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