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Jordanian police corner off the area where prominent Jordanian writer Nahed Hattar was shot dead outside a court in Amman. Photo: AFP


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Pakistani human rights activist and lawyer Asma Jahangir addresses a protest rally in Lahore on April 4, 2009 Getty Images


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Iranian Interior Minister Mostafa Pourmohammadi talks during a news conference in Tehran, March 15, 2008. (photo by REUTERS/Ahmed Jadallah)


1980’s Execution Haunts Top Iranian Officials

1980’s Execution Haunts Top Iranian Officials

London- Heated controversy sparked-off 20 days ago as a recording for Iran’s Deputy Supreme Leader Hussein-Ali Montazeri surfaced. The recording sounds Montazeri’s loud objection to many of the regime-carried death sentences in 1988. Montazeri’s controversial audio...
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Opinion: Iran Needs to Bury Khomeini’s Ghost

Opinion: Iran Needs to Bury Khomeini’s Ghost

More than 17 years after his death, the man who led the mullahs to power in Iran, Ayatollah Ruhallah Khomeini, is still at the center of the post-revolution debate that has divided Iranians to the point of inciting some to violence against each other. Last week the...