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2 posted on 11/28/2003 12:15:40 AM PST by DoctorZIn (Until they are free, we shall all be Iranians!)
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To: DoctorZIn
This guy was a bloodsucker.

http://www.daneshjoo.org/generalnews/article/publish/article_3819.shtml

"Hanging judge", Khalkhali, dies in Iran
AFP - World News (via Iranmania)
Nov 27, 2003

TEHRAN -- Ayatollah Sadeg Khalkhali, who as head of Iran's first revolutionary tribunals after the 1979 birth of Iran sent dozens if not hundreds of people to the gallows, died Thursday at the age of 76, state TV said.
The judge died in a Tehran hospital after undergoing a brain operation.

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Known in the foreign media as "the hanging judge," the ayatollah shot to prominence after condemning to death in absentia the deposed shah of Iran and ordering the execution of former premier Amir Abbas Hoveyda.

The ex-chief of the shah's dreaded Savak secret police, Nematollah Nassiri, was also among those executed under his death sentences, along with several generals and former officers in the imperial army.

In the late 1990s, Khalkhali, who was close to the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the leader of the 1979 revolution, published a list of 85 people, mostly officers or officials of the former regime, whose execution he had personally ordered.

However dozens of left-winger and Kurds who rebelled against Khomeini after the revolution were also put to death on Khalkhali's orders.

He voiced no regrets for his verdicts. "If I had to do it again, I would restart," the judge wrote in his memoirs.

Khalkhali also wrote of how he ensured the execution of ex-premier Hoveyda was carried out without any last-minute intervention by the liberal government of Mehdi Bazargan.

"I ordered the telephone lines to be cut and the prison gates shut until the judgement was over ... During the trial, a helicopter flew over the prison but I held firm," he said.

In the early years of the revolution, Khomeini also ordered him to crack down on drug traffickers, of whom many were executed.

Khalkhali was an MP for the Shiite holy city of Qom in central Iran for more than a decade, but his parliamentary candidacy was rejected in 1991 by the Council of Guardians legislative watchdog.

He was later politically sidelined, while supporting pro-reform president Mohammad Khatami, and retreated to a theological school in Qom where he gave lessons.

Khalkhali is to be buried in Qom on Friday.

11 posted on 11/28/2003 9:42:51 AM PST by freedom44
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