Hashem Aghajari

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Image:Iran.Aghajari.jpg Hashem Aghajari (Persian: هاشم آغاجری) is an Iranian university professor and a critic of the Islamic Republic's government. He was convicted of apostasy and sentenced to death because of a speech in Hamadan that criticized some of the present Islamic practices in Iran as being in contradiction with the original practices and ideology of Islam. After widespead protests by students and reformist political parties, the sentence was later commuted to three years in jail, two years in probation, and five years' suspension of his social rights.

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