Iranian History Professor’s Death Sentence Upheld

madcow writes “Fundamentalists in Iran are making it a tad harder to speak freely as this temporarily available article makes clear. “Mr. Aghajari is serving a four-year sentence at Tehran’s notorious Evin prison….[T]he regional court that handed down the original death sentence has reaffirmed it. “The judge has … maintained his original decision,” said a court official. “There was nothing new in the file.” Now it goes back again to the Iranian Supreme Court.”