Iran ex-prosecutor known as 'butcher of the press' sentenced to 135 lashes over corruption
Saeed Mortazavi, second from left, attends the execution by hanging of Majid Kavousifar and Hossein Kavousifar in Tehran August 2, 2007. Iran hanged Majid and Hossein, the killers of a judge, Hassan Moghaddas, who had jailed several reformist dissidents, before a crowd of hundreds. (Reuters)/ The Iranian former prosecutor who was known by Human Rights Watch to be a “serial human rights abuser” was sentenced Wednesday to 135 lashes on charges stemming from a corruption trial, Saeed Mortazavi, 49, an ally of former hardline President Mahmoud ...
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