Iranian dissident Mehdi Khazali, who was serving a six-year prison sentence for acts against national security and spreading propaganda against the regime, has been freed on health grounds. "A representative of the prosecutor and a doctor went to my client's bedside and have judged that the continuation of imprisonment would be dangerous for his health," said lawyer Mostafa Tork-Hamedani. A doctor by profession and a veteran of the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war, Khazali is the son of Ayatollah Abolghassem Khazali, an important religious figure k**wn for taking ultra-conservative positions. Ayatollah Khazali has disowned the views of his son, including his criticism of Iran's human rights situation.
07-15-2014, 05:11 PM
Iranian dissident freed on health grounds
Iranian dissident Mehdi Khazali, who was serving a six-year prison sentence for acts against national security and spreading propaganda against the regime, has been freed on health grounds. "A representative of the prosecutor and a doctor went to my client's bedside and have judged that the continuation of imprisonment would be dangerous for his health," said lawyer Mostafa Tork-Hamedani. A doctor by profession and a veteran of the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war, Khazali is the son of Ayatollah Abolghassem Khazali, an important religious figure k**wn for taking ultra-conservative positions. Ayatollah Khazali has disowned the views of his son, including his criticism of Iran's human rights situation.
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