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Iranians vs. ‘Hanging Judges’

(The 15th c. CE shrine of Noorud’din Nimatullah Veli, May His Mystery Be Sanctified, Kerman Province, Iran — Photograph 2010 Via Wikimedia Commons.) Abulghasem Salavati, who heads Branch 15 of the Revolutionary Court in Tehran, is known as one of Iran’s “hanging judges.” As the London Guardian reported recently, Salavati and his colleague, Mohammad Moghiseh, […]