Posted on 08/06/2014 6:02:24 PM PDT by nuconvert
Abulghasem Salavati, who heads Branch 15 of the Revolutionary Court in Tehran, is known as one of Iran’s “hanging judges.”
...an Iranian opposition advocate now living in Norway, described Salavati ordering half a dozen death sentences against protestors in the reformist “Green movement” of 2009. More than 100 participants in the “Green movement” were charged in a mass show trial held in Tehran that year, over which Salavati presided.
... Mohammad Moghiseh, has meanwhile sentenced eight Iranian Facebook users—six men and two women—to a total of 127 years in prison. ... such verdicts “go beyond what Iran’s own laws dictate.” ... “the maximum sentence for the suspects should have been 7.5 years [each]” if they were proved to have “acted against national security.”
(Excerpt) Read more at weeklystandard.com ...
pong
I’m sure Abulghasem is just misunderstood. He doesn’t understand this is the XXIst century as John Kerry has said.
/Scarasm
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