Actual photo of the incident
Posted on 08/02/2005 12:40:33 PM PDT by F14 Pilot
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - A gunman on a motorcycle shot and killed a judge Tuesday in central Tehran and then sped off, a judiciary spokesman said.
Judge Masoud Moqadasi handled a case against an investigative reporter jailed in 2000 for reporting that intelligence officials murdered five Iranian dissidents in 1998, judiciary spokesman Jamal Karimirad said.
The journalist Akbar Ganji remains in jail. Iran's Intelligence Ministry later blamed the murders of the dissidents on ``rogue agents'' in the secret service.
As the judge drove away from his office, the gunman sped up to Moqadasi's car on a motorcycle and sprayed it with rifle fire and then fled, Karimirad told The Associated Press.
Moqadasi headed the Tehran judiciary complex and specialized in cases of social vice, Karimirad told The Associated Press.
Police Chief Morteza Talaei said a motive for the killing was unclear, and police would look at Moqadasi's past cases for clues. No one has claimed responsibility.
After overseeing Ganji's first trial in the Third Branch of the Revolutionary Court, Moqadasi sentenced the journalist to 10 years in prison and five years in exile in southern Iran for violating national security by releasing classified information.
That sentence was reduced to six months in jail in a second judgment in a different court. But when a top judiciary official objected, Iran's supreme court changed the sentence to six years. Ganji has already served more than five years in prison.
Ganji, who is on a hunger strike and drinks only tea and water, is being treated in Tehran's Milad Hospital under police guard. His wife, Masoumeh Shafiei, said last week he has lost a lot of weight and is in delicate health.
PING!
Maybe someone will ship them a few weapons of a heavier sort.
And so it begins.
And so it begins.
Actual photo of the incident
This judge was in charge of arresting young people, girls and those boys who dressed against the Islamic code...
This judge deserved to die any how!
Terrorist regimes only understand terrorism!
Oh Oh time to ban guns and motorcycles - (Al Gore)
live by the sword.......
It is a bit late to stop Iranian people, fortunately!
Boom ~ Bump!
Payback time!
That country is going to explode into civil war.
They will use this to keep Ganji in jail and torture him some more.
As luck would have it, the one kind of war where nukes don't work so well.
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