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| Ayatollah Says Iran Has No Political Prisoners Because No Law Mentions Them |
| 2004-04-30 |
| Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Mahmud Hashemi-Shahrudi said in Tehran on 29 April that "we have no political prisoners in Iran" because Iranian law does not mention such offenses.... His statement contradicts President Hojatoleslam Mohammad Khatami’s earlier admission that dissidents have been jailed. "The world may consider certain cases, by their nature, political crimes, but because we do not have a law in this regard, these are considered ordinary offenses." |
| Posted by:Mike Sylwester |
| #2 I bet military plans are adready in the works to topple Iran's mad mullahs by the end of the year. Reason: Iran, utilizing her billions in exported crude oil is bankrolling terrorism in Iraq, against Israel, controls Lebanon through Hizb'allah and keeps Syria's Assad in power to export further terrorism. |
| Posted by: Mark Espinola 2004-05-01 3:26:14 AM |
| #1 I think he would have been better off going with a different standard arguement: "If we do have political prisoners, I don't know about them because I was out of the room, having had too much Turkish coffee at that meeting of the Revolutionary Council." |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2004-05-01 12:29:45 AM |