Annie
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Anything that helps lead to the opening of Iran has to be good. I remember whey the death penalty was taken off the table, I wonder if he will be allowed to return to the university?
http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=557234§ion=news
http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=557234§ion=news
Iranian dissident released from jail
Sat 31 July, 2004 20:48
By Parinoosh Arami
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's leading academic dissident Hashem Aghajari has been freed on bail after two years in jail facing the death penalty for telling Iranians not to follow their clerical leaders like "monkeys".
Students took to the streets in violent protests in 2002 after the history lecturer, who lost a leg in the 1980-1988 war with Iraq, was sentenced to hang for blasphemy.