Leading cleric defies Tehran on confessions
In a rare public challenge to the Iranian regime, the countrys highest-ranking cleric has warned that prisoners confessions are invalid, signalling a deepening gulf between the political establishment in Tehran and clerical establishment in the holy city of Qom.
Confessions of prisoners have no validity and if a judge uses confessions for issuing verdicts that judge is no longer qualified, Grand Ayatollah Hossein Vahid Khorasani told students this week.
Posted by: Anonymoose 2010-12-31 |