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Death sentence reimposed

TEHERAN: An Iranian court reimposed a death sentence on Monday against a university professor who criticised clerical rule, a judicial official said. The original sentence handed down to Hashem Aghajari in November 2002 provoked the biggest student demonstrations in years. The death sentence was reinstated by a court in the western province of Hamedan, the province's chief judiciary official, Zekrollah Ahmadi, said. He said that after the Supreme Court lifted the death sentence in February 2003, ``the (Hamedan) court then reviewed the case and reimposed the sentence.'' A history professor at a Teheran teachers' college, Mr. Aghajari was convicted in 2002 of insulting Islam and questioning the rule of hard-line clerics. He was condemned to death, banned from teaching for 10 years, exiled for eight years to three remote cities, and sentenced to receive 74 lashes.

— AP

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