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Although other controversial death sentences have been reduced on appeal, Aghajari refused to appeal the ruling, announcing through his lawyer that "those who have issued this verdict have to implement it if they think it is right or else the judiciary has to handle it." While in prison his family
289:" and reform in Islam. This prompted an "immediate outcry" from hardline clerics, who claimed that he was attacking "the Prophet of Islam and fundamental Shiite Islamic traditions", although Dr. Aghajari has repeatedly denied that his speech was intended as an attack on Islam or the Prophet.
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paramilitaries to make "a serious attempt to break up" the peaceful reformist student protests over the sentence was thought to be associated with
Supreme Leader Khamenei's implicit criticism of the sentence and the "impartiality" of his failing to side with conservative hardliners.
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Demonstrations against the sentence began the day after it was made public on
November 6. They are thought to have attracted no more than 5000 participants but nonetheless were "the most serious protests in Iran since 1999" and are thought to have provoked Supreme Leader
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magazine, the arrest and stiff sentence were an attempt to distract attention from two bills to increase the power of president and curb the hard-liner conservatives' supervisory power which reformist
President Khatami had introduced into Parliament.
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Aghajari's amputated leg stub was bruised and infected and that he was "unable to stand up, walk or use the prison's hygiene facilities." The human rights group, Amnesty International, campaigned against the sentence.
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Khamenei ordered the judiciary to review Aghajari's death sentence, but "hardliners in the judiciary at first ignored" his order "then assigned their least lenient judges to the review."
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for a speech he gave on Islam urging
Iranians to "not blindly follow" Islamic clerics. In 2004, after domestic Iranian and international outcry, his sentence was reduced to five years in prison.
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Aghajari served in the Iran-Iraq War where he lost his right leg below the knee, and his brother. He has been described as having an "impeccable Islamic revolutionary record."
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He was arrested 8 August. The trial was criticized not only for its harshness but for falling "far short of international standards of
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The sentence was later commuted to three years in jail, two years in probation, and five years' suspension of his
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The death sentence was denounced by many. The
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practices in Iran as being in contradiction with the original practices and ideology of Islam, and calling for "
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He was released from prison July 31, 2004 after paying a bail of $ 122,500, according to the
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In 2014, he was again sentenced to one year in prison in charge of "propaganda against the regime".
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